81. His father and mother, Hristo and Maroutsa, had grown up poor, and young Todor had to leave school after finishing the sixth grade. 82. His father pulled him out of school in the sixth grade and put him to work to help support that big family. 83. His mother moved to Rocky Mount, N.C., when he was in the sixth grade. 84. How when I was in sixth grade I begged my mother for a package of the precious granules. 85. His parents divorced, and in sixth grade he followed his father to Las Vegas. 86. I have, as I often point out to my children, been through both the second and the sixth grades once already. 87. I recall sixth grade so much better than she. 88. I remember in sixth grade being called leprechaun and dwarf. 89. I worry that keeping them girls together from kindergarten through sixth grade will encourage this competitiveness. 90. I was driving a car in the sixth grade. |