A few years ago I was living with my mother in Yuma. I lived with her for almost my whole life with joint custody shared between the two of my parents. I went to the school district that was in the boundaries of my mom's residence because more of the time shared between joint custody was with my mother. I always did okay in school up until two years ago. My mom has alway been a single parent ever since her and my dad split up. She was always way too nice and dated the wrong type of guys. She ended up dating this guy two years ago, she was too blind to see he was an addict. One day when we were at my dad's house over the weekend, the cops were called to her house because there was an incident of a gunshot. My mom had called the cops because her ex boyfriend had shot himself by accident. They ended up putting a search warrant on her home and found drugs …show more content…
They didn't charge her for the drugs, they charged her for lying about them Cause when the cops were on the way her ex had told her he had drugs and to hide them, so she did. At first she had lied to the cops about knowing about the drugs, and later told the truth. she was arrested and later let go the same day cause they realized that the drugs weren't hers. Months later the charges were brought back up, she was charged with facilitation of dangerous drugs for sale, she ended up getting put on probation for 36 months. she lost her home, her car. My grades dropped drastically because I didn't attend school a lot, because I had no way of getting there or sometimes I didn't wanna go,so I just didn't go. Later CPS got involved when she went to jail for a few days . My dad ended up getting full custody of us and that's when I started my freshmen year at Gila Ridge. I now go to school everyday and I still struggle a little bit but my grades have improved a lot. From this setback i've learned not to just settle for