Highs and Lows
Schools in those days had “low” and “high” grades, ie., the low first grade, and the high first grade. If one failed the low first, he/she was not promoted to the high first, etc. Both, the highs and lows were taught each semester. Completing the high first, one was promoted to the low second. Students who excelled were “double promoted.” It seems that I remember that Bobby was double promoted, or triple promoted; I think he skipped the entire second grade. I was never double promoted, but I was never held back, either. I don’t know when they stopped having the low and high grades.
The second semester that year Jim started to Fullmore Jr. High in the “low seventh.” He has reminded me that he was a street crossing guard at school. It was during that year that the state of Texas added the twelfth grade to the public schools, and I recall that Jim was just not real happy about that.