Man, did I hit the jackpot. It was Christmastime in the fourth grade, and the richest kid in our class drew my name as a Not So Secret Santa. A toy car? A handheld video game? A set of really good baseball cards? Sky’s the limit! It was one of the few times I was […]
Twelve Days of Christmas, Part IX: Fast times at Maplecrest Elementary Read More »
My career as a student got off a rousing start. Less than a year into school, my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Booth, didn’t mince words with my father during a parent-teacher conference at Anderson Elementary School. “She wanted to hold you back. I’d never heard of anybody repeating kindergarten, but she didn’t think you were overly
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The thought of school used to drive me to tears. I cried on the first day of school every year until the fifth grade. It wasn’t that I didn’t like school. I was just scared. That stopped in September 1986 when my father pulled me aside a few days before school for a short, gentle
