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They Are Noncompliant Messes

He is deemed least likely to succeed in kindergarten Cannot follow in a line, is horrible at being redundant Never fits in with the rest of the cookie dough Distorted immediately after being cut into a circle He cannot be educated the teacher says in a note to his mother He is Thomas Edison She is strangely odd, her professor writes. She does not take direction well, is disrespectful, Is too strong willed, and will never be compliant. She is so many modern women it is not funny And they are all presidents of their own businesses now I guess they could not do anything else He is a mess; no home schooling. No one can control him; he is a wild man. He runs to Hollywood to star in movies. No one has to tame him there. He is a millionaire now. But how can that be? He did not finish school. This does not compute.

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Date: 11/7/2021 7:52:00 PM
Nope, it will not compute, but these situations are very true. Amazing the number of top Hollywood stars who never graduated from high school. They are making zillions. What in the hell went wrong?
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/8/2021 8:31:00 PM
I think school is not for everyone. Too much "conformity" there.
Date: 11/7/2021 5:49:00 PM
How can that be??
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/8/2021 8:31:00 PM
Thomas Edison's mother received a note that said "do not send this child to school; he is unteachable" when he was five.

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