>I was born too soon.

by Roger Sutton
Feb 16, 2006 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>So where was this guy when I was in junior high?
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Lisa Yee

>Q: "So where was this guy when I was in junior high?"

A: He was trying to figure out how to get out of gym class.

Posted : Feb 24, 2006 04:57

rindambyers

>Goodness, I don't know! He always told me "Highway to Heaven!" I got a better deal in high school than he did with teachers, but oh, college, yeah...I skipped over half my college poetry class spring quarter...got an easy B.....and the world's easiest A in creative writing...I was so bored I pursued other areas like history and theology and sociology instead....

Posted : Feb 19, 2006 08:16

webshred

>rindambyers - I think you have "Stairway to Heaven" and "Highway to Hell" mixed up. But maybe it should have been "Study Hall to Hell".

Posted : Feb 18, 2006 02:58

pkbear

>I cut gym class for an entire term and got an A.

Posted : Feb 17, 2006 03:43

rindambyers

>Ditto, my husband's english teacher in high school who made the class spend an entire quarter focusing on nothing but the song "Highway to Heaven". Makes you want to scream at the wasting of young lives like this.

Posted : Feb 17, 2006 03:56

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