eighth grade

“He was just a kid, like me, but with longer hair and a shorter vocabulary, and even though he was going into eighth grade and I was going into sixth, that disparity disappeared that summer in a haze of tag and hotbox and bike races and baseball cards and mud pies and dandelion soup and ice cream trucks and corn on the cob on soggy plates … a life.”

Land of the Blind

“Charles M. Schulz flunked eighth grade completely and also later flunked physics, Latin, algebra, and English.”

Simon & Schuster: The Courage To Be Christian

“He won the General Excellence medal all eight years of grammar school, even though in the eighth grade he missed forty days of school.”

Simon & Schuster: Kitchen Privileges

“Despite being paralyzed and in a wheelchair, by eighth grade Cody had created the Cody Unser First Step Foundation to help establish a TM research consortium spearheaded by Johns Hopkins Hospital.”

Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic