mizzoumommy - wow. That is a jaw-dropping story. How can a school that had earlier offered multiple grade skips, and that knew you had already completed the curriculum put you in a special-ed class (which by the way amounted to child abuse for all the kids in it)? yikes. You have overcome so much.

CAMom - I'm with you. In retrospect, I wish I had been accelerated. I didn't even know that was an option at the time, though. Luckily, i had some last minute acceleration (took all my senior year classes at the local university). But by then it was too late, underachievement was fully formed.