Glad to hear you are back to being a Christian!

I think I beat you. Apparently I was born a rebel according to my mom. LOL I once asked her when I was older why she never clamped down on me skipping high school like she did my younger brother. She always told me she didn't worry about me bc unlike some of my siblings at least I had a good head on my shoulders and I was a good reader and smart.

FWIW I got sent to the principal when I was in first grade. I was bored and lied to the teacher about doing some of my work. I was shocked to see she actually went to check it out. (yeah I know but I was only 6). She pulled me up by my hair or ear.. (ouch) out of my seat and reamed me out. I was at a parochial school then and had to go to the principal's classroom (6th grade ) to sit in a chair too big for my feet to reach for the rest of the day. Unfortunately, a neighborhood kid ratted me out on the way home from school (we walked home) and he made me tell my sister what happened. I don't remember what my parents did but I am sure they were NOT happy about it. But I do remember they would ask the teachers what they should do about me. I just didn't seem to want to go along with the crowd or the flow.

Went to parochial school for 8 years and by 8th grade got called out for being a heretic by a nun. Apparently I messed up understanding what she was trying to teach that day. I believe it was also a way to challenge me in front of the class for my constant misbehaving.

By HS (public) I skipped more classes than I went to for the first couple of years. I went to a huge HS with over 400 in my class. I became part of the back gate crowd. Those who hung out and smoked cigarettes and were considered the kids who got in the most trouble. Believe it or not I hung with them, but I refused to do some of the things they did (staying out late drinking to get smashing drunk, having sex, or smoking dope - it was the early 70's). I was told by a Guidance counselor I wasn't college material. Well I would show her. I finally knuckled down and did my homework and pulled up my grades. But not before I got accepted at a state college on academic probation. They made me go to summer school after HS graduation to prove I could do the work. Not only did I succeed and pulled almost a 4.0, I had an English teacher tell me I should be a writer. I never became one but I guess he liked my creative papers especially my paper on the Viet Nam war and China. It was the year President Nixon opened up our relations with China. There was a ping pong match or something like that then. The paper I wrote was total satire. Something I am usually very good at.

I am pretty stubborn when it comes down to anyone telling me that I have to do something. That is how I woke up about the VaXXines when I was mandated to take the H1N1 Vax. Before that I used to get flu shots. Not after I learned what was in them. Haven't been sick a day since then either.