My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I almost got kicked out of eighth grade for selling 'Playboy.'

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.