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> When we switched to public school =
> our daughter went into 4 =
> grade....but tested out in 11 & 12 grade level on her placement tests.  =

Kewl.

I tested at college freshman level when I was in fourth grade, so they
stuck me in some 5th/6th grade classes (I'm a product of a U.S. public
school edjewkashun).  I was pretty immediatly overwhelmed with the
amount of homework they gave me -- research papers? AAAAAAAAGH!!!

Scarred me for life.    Really.   :-)

By the time I was a high school senior, I only tested at the reading
level of a first year graduate student; so I had only four years of
academic advancement in 8 years of schooling.  But I learned some
really cool stuff from my Berkely-educated (commie-pinko) Social
Science teacher like "don't trust the establishment."

I was the guy that everyone else was sick of: never studied but aced
everything anyway.  I spent my after-school hours in band practice or
running track or playing role-playing games or typing computer games
from _COMPUTE!_ magazine into my friend's Atari 800 computer. So I get
to college with absolutely *no* study skills or discipline and I
actually *flunk* several classes.  How humiliating.

I got on scholastic probation, lost my *full* scholarship at Texas A&M
University, crawled home to Wichita Falls in shame where I attended
Midwestern State University.  There I met Sara, who at the time worked
at the Western Sizzlin Steakhouse on Kemp Blvd.  Her manager Jerry
"Buddy" Whitley is a UPC minister (currently pastors the church in
Keller TX), and through him Sara and I encountered JESUS.
                                                    \o/

Oh yeah, I'm still six hours from a college degree even though I have
something like 160 credit hours -- changed majors twice: started out as
Aerospace Engineering (thank GOD I'm not that: all the Aero E.'s I know
are unemployed due to defense cutbacks), then Political Science (hey,
it was easy and fun), then finally Computer Science and Mathematics.  I
almost switched to History, but Sara talked me out of it.

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