Reply #2: I spoke at a school board meeting and impressed them enough that they upped the budget

[LeftyMom]

for the gifted program instead of cutting it. Which is pretty cool for a seven year old, I guess.

My teachers retaliated by making our class square dance at some PTA thing. I should have told the school board they beat us. :P

In high school I did speech and debate, which let me travel a lot and gave me an excuse to get out of classes most friday afternoons. The best part about that was when I'd take other classes from my debate coach and she'd just send me to the library to do research for the team's cases. That's what I really got out of debate- I'm a really good researcher and I have a knack for remembering obscure details and were I read them.