{"id":46848,"date":"2012-10-26T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46848"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:58:48","slug":"i-didnt-enter-school-until-2nd-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46848","title":{"rendered":"I Didn’t Enter School Until 2nd Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got some kindergarten in England around age five and I might’ve learned to read then.<\/p>\n

In late 1972, my family returned to Avondale College<\/a>, a Seventh-Day Adventist institution two hours drive north of Sydney. My dad chaired the Religion Department. He had two PhDs.<\/p>\n

Sister Ellen G. White, the founding prophet of the church, taught that it was good for kids to begin school late, so I ran wild from age six to eight. I was pretty lonely. I only had one friend — Wayne Cherry — and he was at school.<\/p>\n

So I ran around in the bush outside our home, a mile from the college. I had a tomahawk. I chopped down trees and imagined I was blazing a trail like they did in the Wild West in America. I told myself Cowboys and Indians stories. <\/p>\n

There weren’t many abos around. They were mainly in the cities. You’d see them passed out drunk in the gutter after they got their welfare checks.<\/p>\n

When I finally entered school in second grade in January 1973, my social skills were not strong. I used my brain to make fun of people. I remember one day in class, I dribbled urine down my leg. <\/p>\n

My parents caught me lying and so as punishment, I had to bike the mile home to eat lunch and by the time I got back to school, recess was over. <\/p>\n

I told a lot of lies because I didn’t want to get hit by my parents for sinning (eating candy etc) and I usually got found out so I was always getting punished and exiled from normal contact with my classmates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got some kindergarten in England around age five and I might’ve learned to read then. In late 1972, my family returned to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventist","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46850,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848\/revisions\/46850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}