Reggie has convinced himself that middle school is stupid and therefore not worth his time. His avoidance of any effort towards his schoolwork is MOST likely protecting Reggie from:

feeling like a failure.

Explanation:

He try to avoid any kind of  shame and resentment, so he actually try to get escape from this feeling and to give satisfy his ego he convinced himself that middle school has no worth in his life. To satisfy  his mind conscious, he try to escape from hard work and fear of failure.

we can solve this via the kinematic equation:

where the vertical velocity is zero and so:

since the height of the building is 29.3 meters then:

the ball was in motion for approximately 2.45 seconds

the atm that sounds like it should be the answer