1) I was extremely bored with the material being taught.

2) I didn’t like some of my classmates, some of whom bullied me. (I missed 73 days that year, but I since I knew most of the material, I passed and was promoted to the eighth grade.

3) I suffered dizzzy spells, however, I faked a lot of them just to get out of going to school.

Fortunately, one of the seventh grade teachers had me transferred to the other class (There were two classed for each grade level, and the teacher of the other seventh grade class noticed that my two best friends were in the other seventh grade class and had me transferred to that class.)

I was promoted to the eighth grade because, even though I missed so many days in the seventh grade, my work was still very good.

Mark