Grader Quotes

I was seeing her do the same things as a 10th-grader that older kids were just getting to,

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

(That message apparently got through to Jermaine Williams, a fifth grader at Carmen Arace, where kids traipse through the halls with their heavy, magnesium-cased laptops and book bags strapped to luggage carts.) Sending a threatening e-mail is the same thing as threatening someone to their face, ... That`s easy to understand.

He played in my Memorial Day Tournament of Champions. He was, by far, the most advanced ninth-grader I`ve ever seen.

Even as an eighth grader he was calm and ready. My assistant coach said I had better get Zach ready, because he was just sitting in a chair before the (eighth-grade) match. But I knew I didn`t have to get him ready. Zach gets himself ready.