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TexasBushwhacker

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8. Nope, Jeb was a lackluster student K-12

Reply to hollysmom (Reply #7)

Sun Jul 26, 2015, 04:35 PM

Jul 2015

He didn't make decent grades until he went to UT.

The most prestigious and rigorous private school in Houston is the St. John's School. Kinkaid is number two. Naturally, the George and Barbara wanted their shrubs to go to St John's, but they wouldn't accept them. So they had to settle for Kinkaid. Barbara was so grateful that they took her academically challenged kids that she was a volunteer at there for decades.

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