Schooled in Hot Yoga

I was Valedictorian of PS 42 Elementary School in Queens, NY (not telling what year).

I skipped 8th Grade in the 2 Year SP - Specialized Program of accelerated learning.

I graduated in the Top 10 percentile of my high school class of over 1250 graduating students. Yes, 1250 seniors; the Far Rockaway High School student body was so huge that freshmen and sophomores went in the morning, juniors and seniors in the afternoons.

And somehow I missed out on the most important education of my life.

What I really learned in school was how to live up the expectations of others. I was never asked to consider what was important to me; what I wanted for myself. Were you?

Were you schooled to be a people pleaser? 

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