When I was in my sophmore year my family moved from Jersey to California. When settled into my new academic location I was given the equivelant education I had recieved in the 5th and 6th grade from my previous home state.
During the following years I rarely showed up. In the last month I took their mandatory exit exam and graduated with a B+.
I owed this to my parents who taught the three “R’s” From our infancy. My brothers and sisters could read, write and cipher before we were in kidergarten.
During the following years I rarely showed up. In the last month I took their mandatory exit exam and graduated with a B+.
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So?....What did those wasted years cost you in lost time and wages in the workforce? Hm?
Could those extra years in the workforce earned you quarter of a million dollars?
Could they have earned you a HALF MILLION?
That is what wasting the lives of children COSTS the child!
True story- when I was a junior in high school, graduating a year early, doing 4th year French by independent study while doing 3rd year French, my history teacher threatened to fail me if I missed another day of class, as I’d missed 30 days. (Bored senseless with school.) I asked him why he’d do that if I had an A in his class because I obviously wasn’t missing much. Kind of left him as speechless as when I was accused of cheating off a classmate and I responded, “why would I do that when I have an A and she has a C?” LOL.t missing much. Kind of left him as speechless as when I was accused of cheating off a classmate and I responded,