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In high school, he rode the bus four hours a day — from Watsonville to San José and back again — to attend a college prep academy on a work-study scholarship.

"I didn't want to keep going with academy football," he said after he was let go at the age of 11.

Several academy members said that moving from their historic home could deeply damage the AMA.

And while about 20% of academy membership is global, the majority of those members reside in Europe.

I had to move and I had to change schools and live alone in the academy.