21.   All of my students are taller than I am...and I teach eighth grade.

22.   All of which brings us to Waldo Ward, a teacher I had in eighth grade.

23.   Born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig, he had by the eighth grade an imaginary radio station, WMPBA, with interviews, commercials and game coverage.

24.   BOTTOM The small size of the Cabot School allows Scott Griggs, center, to work closely with his eighth grade students.

25.   Bush reiterated last week that he wants to hold public schools accountable for academic results by requiring annual state testing in the third through eighth grades.

26.   But Halsey Junior High, where he had last attended class in the eighth grade, did not want to take him back.

27.   But in the eighth grade, a science teacher saw promise and urged her to enroll in college preparatory courses.

28.   But less than a month before the draft, for the first time since the eighth grade, the Kidd bandwagon wobbled and almost crashed.

29.   But only Dunlap and Gordon, who are going into the eighth grade, indicate they are likely to attend the high school campus in West Hills.

30.   By eighth grade, he had started winning contests.