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Well to be honest, I sort of was an underachiever in elementary in some areas (though somehow I managed to slip through into GATE..didn’t really help though)…And was sort of an overachiever starting jr high. So I don’t think that the elementary is entirely accurate, since it seems like concepts of work ethics come into a much bigger play starting around the 6th grade (for me at least)
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I was actually opposite from you. I was an over achiever in elementary and jr. high, but I got lazy in HS. I would get really upset because I got one G instead of all E. I would strive to become student of the month as many times as possible. Since I came to the US in 3rd grade, I didn’t exit ESL until 6th grade. So, I missed to whole GATE thing and end up taking the AVID route, just so I can take advance classes.
