| Xantar |
03-03-2002 09:38 PM |
Why does everybody have to keep misinterpreting what I say? :baby:
Okay, fine. I'll explain myself.
I got significant amounts of home schooling from my parents (one is a chemistry major from University of Chicago and the other has two majors, a minor and a masters from M.I.T.). I consider this to be part of my education. I also got significant one on one time with teachers because my parents asked and paid for it (and I wanted it). I also consider this to be part of my education. And so I was put on the fast track at my school, sort of. I was still considered a 6th grader at the time. It just so happened that I took all of my classes with 7th and 8th graders. And all this I attribute not to my own inherent qualities but to the fact that I was lucky enough to have parents who placed great value in giving their son the best education he could get.
I was never supposed to be moved up in grades. My classmates were all older than me, but I wasn't going to graduate in the same year as them. However, my school shut down, and the school I transferred to decided to treat me as a person who had just finished 7th grade instead of as a person who would be entering 7th grade as my old school would have done. So at my new school, I joined the 8th grade class and went on with life.
Anything I know comes from the books I read and the people who taught me. It just so happened that I had great books and teachers, and thus I was given the opportunity to study at a higher level than most people my age. I fully believe that under the same circumstances, almost anybody else would be doing the same thing. And the fact that I ended up in a grade higher than normal for my age is entirely accidental.
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