We couldn't afford private either. I was just lucky to win a
scholarship. [I had to write a couple of essays in 8th grade and
be interviewed] I graduated with 12 kids in my class, and the
school was Kindergarten to 12th grade. It was a neat place.
Board of trustees were scam artists though, and they shut the
120 yr old school down a year after I graduated. But it probably
saved my sanity. Public school was a madhouse. But I still
would've done better had I been homeschooled with the Internet
at my disposal (not the early 80s Internet... that was still
military and very few Unversities at that time - I mean today's
'net]. Still, I've been making up for lost opportunities the
moment I got on and never stopped learning since.
