My name is Laurie Hatch I am 26 years old. I live in Lebanon New Hampshire. I am originally from Ardmore OK. I lived there till I was about four years old. My mother moved us to Vermont to take care of my grandmother and grandfather. My mother then married a man who adopted me when I was seven years old. In second grade I had a teacher who saw me asking for help on a spelling test and said it was cheating and told my parents he was going to hold me back a grade. He said I was slow and needed special help. My parent thought it would be a good idea to put me in Justin Morgan Christian School. They did not have the best learning program in that school. We sat in a cubby all day long looking at the wall. When we had a question we had to put an American flag on the top of the cubby. For the bathroom we put up the Christian flag. We worked in what they called “paces” You worked in them all day long they had a book for math, science, English, and so on. Each year you went up in a “pace book” the higher you got in school. That kind of learning did not work for me. So at the end of my sixth grade year I asked my parents if I could go to a Public School. So in 7th grade I went to a high school in my home town. I was so far behind when I got in class I didn’t know how to really do anything in my classes my first year, so when I went to 8th grade they put me in all special classes. I was really hard for me to have to go to a one on one class room when my friends and class mates went to regular classes. I graduated in 2004 with pretty good grades. After high school I moved out of my small home town to New Hampshire. There I job jumped from bartending to tanning salons to just about anyone who hire a non collage graduate. I then found a job at a sports store. I worked my way up to become an Assistant manager. In 2006 two men walked in and asked me and my co-worker to dinner. So we