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Troublemaking children not doomed to failure (unless they pursue blogging careers)

Ted Alvarez on November 13, 2007 4:01 PM
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Were you the kid at the back of the room who made jokes aloud about teacher's harelip? Did you set Hammy the class hamster on fire? Did your lucrative business drawing boobies in pen and ink end in the Great Boy's Bathroom Raid of Ought Six? Well, despair no longer, because all those hours of detention and marks on "your permanent record" don't mean squat: Jackass kids with bad behavior often perform as well in academics as their goody-two-shoes peers.