Man, you got in trouble for all SORTS of things I didn't. You win. (Were they seriously still doing that left-handed garbage? My siblings didn't have to put up with that--I'm the only right-hander in my family--but Mom got the full force of the Catholic School nuns.) I was always pissed when I got the extra busywork though, because the busywork was supposed to keep the noisy kids quiet, and I was BEING quiet.

TAKE THAT, FIRST GRADERS. They tried to skip me ahead to first grade once. I'm not sure why they gave up. Hell, I didn't know. I was little.

Yeah, we had the Neutral Named Groups, too. I think it was Sparrows and Robins or something, but we all knew what it really was. And I remember they kept renaming the gifted classes in junior high so that parents wouldn't realize their kids weren't in that class and complain. I think "Access" was my favorite codename.