Twenty-year-old Kamani Straub says he left Seneca High School just shy of receiving his high school diploma. He's been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and bipolar disorder, but he was always able to maintain good grades.
But when he discovered after 14 years the man he thought was his father wasn't, things started to slip.
This is the first in a series of stories WFPL is airing over the next month profiling former public school students that left school before graduating. The series sheds light on the personal narratives behind statistics and data media often reports.