How in hell do you have to repeat third grade?
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Didn’t learn his multiplication tables?
Of course in Florida, at one point, a child can’t exit 3rd grade until that child could read on grade level (I believe it still applies).
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Third grade? Brings back memories. I put a book in my lap and read various library books throughout 3rd grade. My mom visited one day(unannounced) just to see what was happening—she did that to all her kids through out elementary grades.
So she asked the teacher how come she didn’t stop me or punish me for not paying attention. The teacher shrugged, and said “every time I ask her a question she knows the answer, so why bother her?” Ha!
Not because I had problems with it, I had moved from an elementary school near the University of Florida to a south Florida tourist center on the beach.
I already knew virtually everything being taught. The teacher's solution was to make me practice cursive writing repeatedly, because I wrote too small.
A year or so later, I'll never forget arguing with another student about the location of the University of Florida.
When I insisted that UF was in Gainesville, the teacher corrected me, and informed me that the University of Florida was located in Jacksonville, after all, the Gator Bowl was located there.