Hey, OBK

[SyberBitch]

Starry Night is one of my favorite paintings.

Syber, don't you just love when teachers challenge you? My favorite challenge was in the 5^th grade. We had a book fair and I bought Moby Dick (OBK mentioning this reminded me of this story too) and Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land.

Mr. Gasparo (egads I even remember his name!) was all kinds of pissy because I bought these two books and insisted I wouldn't understand them and I shouldn't have bought them.

We were to do an assignment with a book we bought at the fair but I was warned no more Pipi Longstocking book reports. So I bought those two books.

I told him I was going to write one on Moby Dick. He laughed in my face and gave me two extra weeks to read it and report on it.

I really wish my mother saved all my stuff from school.

Anyway, the report was not a literary work of genius but I got a passing grade and an apology from Mr. G. I did indeed understand it (barely but hell I was only 10!).

I was always good with reading but math... pfft - I'm lucky my checkbook balances.

I totally understand. I was in similar situations several times. I'm also horrible at math. =p Kind of goofy that they have such low standards though, isn't it? It's even worse NOW I think, with the whole 'no child left behind' nonsense. I'm SO going to homeschool my son.