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I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I made good grades in school.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.