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I was a problem teen in both junior high and high school. My problem? I learned too easy, and got bored.
Thankfully in both junior high and high school I had remarkable librarians (and an awesome high school counselor) who took me under their wings. The librarians setup reading programs for me, and spent time discussing the books with me, challenging me in my interpretations and analysis of the books. As a result, I was exposed to books I'd have never found on my own, and became a voracious reader from a wide selection of genres.
I was lucky, had it not been for those two women, and the counselor who recognized he needed to give me a lot of flexibility in my high school years to keep from losing me, I don't think school would have kept my interest at all, and I would be a much lesser person as a result.
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