I must have been in Mrs. Polzin's 3rd/4th grade class. Upon completing 3rd grade, you simply moved over a row or two. Mrs. Polzin used to show us her old (new in 62) summer vacation slides, like the old Jackie Vernon skit. I still remember a picture of Mr. Polzin standing in "fat man's misery". Mrs. Polzin found bizzare humor in that . I spelled v-e-g-e-t-a-b-l-e correctly in the spelling bee, but pronounced it as written and everyone laughed. I decided it was better to be funny than smart.

Older kids - Eddie Bertram got sent home for wearing his hair in a mohawk, Jim Braun got sent home for wearing a number (33) t shirt, Walker White got sent home for wearing metal heel clips on his harness boots. To mere 3rd graders, such acts of defiance were "godlike". Nehru shirts weren't invented yet, forunately the Leisure Suit wasn't either.

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