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In high school, our Biology teacher gave girls extra points on a test…

Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰
5 min readJan 11, 2022

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…if we wore short a skirt on test day. It was in the 70s. Perv much?

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I hated skirts, but I also hated biology.

So I sucked it up and wore a short skirt. Actually, I would write stupid biology equations on my leg under my skirt.

When he wasn’t looking,

I would slip my skirt up a bit and use the cheat sheet that I had written on my leg. I always got great grades but in retrospect, I spent some time devising this plan. I may hit the “A” if I had just studied.

Photo by Jan Sebastian, the author … Lakewood High 1976

Driver Ed in the ’70s. What a blast.🚗 🚕 🚙

The phys ed teacher was our driver's ed teacher. We called him Coach. Thank God for him. My dad got so uptight when teaching me to drive, he just yelled at me. So Coach was a lifesaver. It’s probably why teachers got the gig.

Summer of 1975 in Ohio…

and 4 of us plus the teacher were driving by a field when he screamed, “Stop the car!. So Doug (my classmate who was driving, pulled the car over. The…

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Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰
Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰

Written by Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰

I had a stroke so I can’t walk or talk, but I can write! Just a new chapter in life. I love the journey…..By me a cup of coffee Ko-fi.com/jansebastian5419

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