Wait, is this the incident that he says gave him his acquired savant syndrome that made him a musical genius with an intrinsic understanding of all instruments? If so, holy fuck.
It makes you wonder if he was actually different before the fall, for better or worse, or if he was still exactly the same when he woke up. Either way, I had no heard about the false police report bit but that's very much on brand for him.
Yes, it is the same fall!
With the exception of: he didn't hit his head. He landed on his side. Now, the aunt did have some allusions to a head injury, but she was clear that the fall at the school wasn't that. But, blaming the boys who dared him to do it was the reason he was expelled.
If you've seen Chance try writing anything, he has to be dyslexic or close to it. Add sexually assaulting a blind kid and being poor genetic shit, easy to see why he dropped out.
He was expelled from, or left the school he went to with Billy. "For his own safety." is his story. He changed high schools after that, and continued, until he jumped off that ledge, and the school put their foot down and aged him out.
I think Garfield High is the Billy school. I don't remember.
No child left behind - I imagine schools likely get a nice additional source of funding to keep someone like that going.
No. Absolutely not, he would be a huge drain on the system because of no child left behind. Not to go on my education rant, but NCLB incentivizes high state testing scores, to a disgusting degree. The funding for the high school is tied directly to that score, and that's why you often hear complaints of kids being, "taught the test" these days.
Raxx was a black hole of money for those schools when he attended. He cost the school money, especially if he wasn't in any special needs programs.
However, as Americans we're guaranteed access to a public school if the state has established a public school system, under the equal protections clause of the 14th amendment*.
From everything I know and understand about the goblin, he might have just never moved forward with his schooling. It's not illegal to be in high school after 18, it's just socially unacceptable, and Chance doesn't know that, because he sees himself as their peer. He might have also been granted leniency if he was in a special needs program, like the school he attended in Florida.
*...that may also be where Raxx got that 24th amendment comment he made to Marty once.
tl;dr 2 high schools 1 chance wilkins
one he left because of blind Billy
the other he was forced out, possibly because he falsified a police report
