"In Defense of Our Teachers," the Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer revealed his childhood diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a way of explaining his poor academic performance and early exit from high school."I hate to break it to you, but I was a terrible student," Grohl says. "It was no fault of the Fairfax public school system, mind you; it did the best it could.
I was just stubbornly disengaged, impeded by a raging case of ADD, and an insatiable desire to play music. Far from being a model student, I did my best to maintain focus but eventually left school half way through 11th grade to become a professional touring musician — not advised.
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