Word: starpoint
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...anything but the life foreshadowed by 95 pages of McVeigh's academic records from the Starpoint Central School District in Lockport, New York, near the Canadian border. According to the documents Jones released to TIME, McVeigh was a bright (IQ 128, above average), hardworking student who got sloppy at times but earned mostly A's and B's through high school, falling just outside the top 20% of his class, which disqualified him for the training he wanted as a computer programmer. More striking are the descriptions of a likable youngster limned year after year in the handwritten evaluations...
...people who knew McVeigh from his hometown of Pendleton, New York, about 15 miles northeast of Niagara Falls, recognized him from the composite sketch. And some of his classmates and teachers from Starpoint High, where McVeigh graduated in 1986, would have nominated him as least likely to be the bomber. "He wasn't a troublemaker at all," says Wendy Stephany, while Cecelia M. Matyjas, his tenth-grade geometry teacher, remembers how "the kids used to pick on him." Schoolmates sarcastically voted the taciturn McVeigh "Most Talkative." Still, he showed initiative: he charged the neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house...
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