First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I only finished first grade.
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.
I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'
My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.
No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.