Collins had problems of her own: she was severely dyslexic, which meant that she was pulled out of class during math and reading lessons in grade school.
I got my driver's license after a short course and a couple of lessons in 11th grade.
Hillary took piano lessons in sixth grade from a neighbor who kept her taxidermied Pomeranians in a glass case.
He started piano lessons in first grade, and a year later, after his parents let him watch the movie "Dirty Dancing," he took dance lessons.
In the district, students start performance lessons in fourth grade and Ms. V, as she is affectionately called by students and parents, is often their first introduction to music.
You rush home, download a music suite, start furiously clicking and recording, only to be sooner or later confronted by the reality that you have no idea what you're doing, and reprimand yourself for turning down those music lessons in fourth grade.
It's even more embarrassing since my elementary school started French lessons in first grade to assure our parents that we would grow up to be cultivated.
Teachers are reporting more children seeking to enrol every day; some schools around Kabul, for example, see up to 10 new children a day registering for lessons, mostly in Grade 1 - a result of ongoing return of refugees from Pakistan.
Erected in 1829 (I recite, calling up from memory a lesson imprinted in grade school), this statue was the nation's first to honor the first president.
While growing up in Massapequa, N.Y., he started trumpet lessons in the fourth grade but quit.
