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From: hplabs!joanne@hpccc.hp.com (Joanne Petersen)
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Subject: Re: Countering discrimination your children will face
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Date: 20 Sep 88 00:30:50 GMT
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I hadn't realized how unusually lucky I was to have a grade-school teacher
recognize that I had math potential when I was in 6th grade, and he arranged
tutoring for me (and helped my parents pay for it!) with a local college
student (U.Chicago), who taught me some basic things like doing square roots
algebra, and trignometry.  Of course, then I was fired up with the interest 
and it was expanded when I went to private school (again, with scholarship
help) and discovered an outstanding math teacher in 8th grade, who continued
to teach me through high school....

I always felt that I was supported by parents and teachers in my endeavors
to learn about mathematics.  How unusual this sounds now, in the context of
the 'discrimination' discussion....