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New York Times: Still in Middle School at 17, and Out of Hope
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“Forget high school, I’m gonna get my G.E.D. You know what that is, Miss?”
“Yes, I know what a G.E.D.is.” It was 2008, my first year teaching, and I knew that this seventh grader was trying to goad me.
“G.E.D. — Good Enough Degree!” The students were delighted by their own wit.
They weren’t being entirely serious, just trying to undermine my motivator that moment — that they would need the information I was teaching to be prepared for high school.
Four years later, a student walked into my middle-school class hours late, and told me that she was at G.E.D. class.
“G.E.D. class? How long have you been doing that?”
“This was my first one.”
“Why are you doing that? You’re doing so well — why wouldn’t you try high school first?”
“Ms. Klein, I’m going to be 17 this year. I’m too old.”
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