It has been Gordon who has taken control, almost since those fifth-grade days when he fell in love with basketball at an after-school program and started dribbling a ball the block from his house to school each day.
By comparison, here's the third-grade day at one elite private school: 8 30 a.m. to 3 20 p.m., with a 30-minute recess.
Years later, Grace Dunham still remembers a typical sixth-grade day at St. Ann's School: She played guitar, made papier-m??liens for Jupiter's moon Europa, went to puppetry, had some lunch and then dropped an egg off a balcony for a project that involved creating protective covers to prevent eggs from breaking.
On grading day drink lots of water before you go.
BBC News takes a look at some of the most peculiar polling stations, and polling day stories, from past elections which might not make the grade these days.
In "Mrs. Chang," he both mocks and enshrines the accent of a Chinese woman who read him fairy tales in his grade school days.
She grew up on the border of Ossining and New Castle, and said that in her grade school days, she was a closet songwriter, heavily influenced by Judy Collins and Cat Stevens.
Mr. Obama, recalling his own less-than-stellar grade school days, described an ethics class he took in eighth grade, when he was more interested in basketball than studying.
"I wouldn't feel properly dressed at church without my hat on," said Mrs. Davis, 65, who said she has not had a bare head in church since her grade school days.
But the North Salem school district is considerably larger today, compared with his grade school days, Mr. Cassidy said, and the changes have helped lessen any feelings of déjà vu he had.
But Congressional investigators want to know why the rating agencies did not downgrade Enron's debt to below investment grade until days before it sought bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2.
