feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
LOL! i feel i learned plenty during them but very little of it was in my formal classes, despite having a handful of really good teachers. First because my Dad seriously considered home schooling me entirely because he had me reading, writing and doing basic math before i even went into 1st grade (no pre-school or Kindergarten in rural Florida back then). i became a voracious reader, anything everything. No library in our little town so Dad frequently took us to 2nd hand book stores in Tampa when he could afford.
i was the only working class kid n the advanced English and History classes--everyone else from upper middle class families with a certainty they could go to college. High School Guidance Counselor did not mention scholarships to me till fall of my Junior Year, at which point my Mom was pregnant with my brother and i knew how things were going to get harder. The last thing i needed was more stress from other college prep classes. Those other kids had in Freshman and Sophomore years.
For me, the one thing that suburban NJ had over my rural first decade was LIBRARIES! Even after Jason came along shortly after midnight January 1963 i'd pop him in stroller and take him with me. It was almost funny, in my senior year i discovered that my Bookkeeping teacher thought i should go to Business School and become a CPA. She didn't realize math, having learned it so early was ingrained in me and in my teen years it was my second refuge (History, Science and other non-fiction books being the first--tho i read a lot of Sci-fi too). Also learned my French teacher had hoped i go to college, major in linguistics and become a UN Translator.
But will always be grateful to that handful of good teachers and my small circle of friends.