Dr. Smith notes that in a fight about money, for instance, one man said, "Did you pass elementary school math?" But another said, "Bless you, you are not so good with the checkbook, but you're good at other things".
I passed through elementary school without learning my multiplication tables and I'm unprepared for ciphering beyond ten fingers.
We drove a little further, passed my elementary school, passed the playgrounds I used to make dandelion chains with my friends, passed the giant trees that were turning crimson in the autumn air.
I passed the "elementary", "high school" and "university senior" tests with flying colours, scraped through the "masters degree" and abjectly failed the "PhD" – though the titles of the tests must be meant to flatter the reader, since I gave up maths halfway through the sixth form.
We passed an elementary school just in time to encounter the students spilling out at the end of their day.
As I passed my children's elementary school I began feeling better.
She continues her tour, passing an elementary school where an eight-year-old boy brought an unloaded gun earlier that week.
For these kids, it is devastating to pass through elementary school to high school without assistance for their difficulties and receive years of "F" grades.
As they pass through elementary school, the thought of not walking their child to school every day sends them into panic mode.
In 2012, Judith is now literate, numerate and married with a baby; Yeseti is a cow-herder, in the steps of his father; Joyness is one of the 7percentt of local children who graduate to secondary school and is doing well there and Bariki is being encouraged to pass his elementary school exams next year.
"I'm an elementary school teacher," I said.
