After his injury, Laffoon's parents decided that he could not make his living as a farmer and sent him to the private school of W. C. O'Bryan.
بعد الاصابة أدرك والداه انه لن يتمكن من العمل في الحقل لذا أرسلوه إلى مدرسة W.C.O بريان الخاصة.