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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 16, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> So I'd have to say, Gene, my experience with the literate leads me  
> to a
> different conclusion.   </HTML>

Well, I accept your direct experience as being more reliable than my  
casual observations. I may be giving credit for a veneer of  
sophistication and computer smarts more weight than deserved.

I would have taken your offer to pass the class and take the rest of  
the semester off. I remember starting new high school classes, reading  
the assigned books in a few days and then being bored silly for many  
weeks thereafter. Acted up, make smart-alecky comments, was basically  
a "bad" student for the rest of the term.

Of course being allowed to stay home from school would have meant  
mostly doing more farm work for my father or hiring out to neighbors.  
So high school was a social lark, more fun, less work than not being  
there.

And I did enjoy P.E. classes, organized sports, men's choir and acting  
in school plays.