Within an hour of my first day of public school, I wanted to leave. I knew no one, I felt like I didn’t belong, I sat at a lunch table by myself for the first week, and to top off the whole thing there...

On Feb. 6, 2005, just over 14 years ago, the car that Kearney High School senior Todd Becker was riding in struck a parked pickup, totaling the car, and killing the backseat passenger. Becker participated...