I got to grade 10. Then they sent me to summer school. The place--Montreal High--was filled with GIRLS. Yeah, THAT helped my studies. Then I recall the day Ms Van Reet called me to the class in June of grade 11. She said, "Bruce, you have failed French written, French oral, algebra, geometry, biology, art, geography and phys ed." I inquired as to what exactly I'd passed. She said, "English written , barely, and English lit, barely." In the english vernacular, I was chuffed. SHE taught those courses.