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Columnist Lloyd joined after-school reading programs when he was was in third grade.

That Time I…. was suspected of cheating on a reading quiz

By Mason Lloyd, Opinion Columnist | September 22, 2022

As a former 90s kid, current 20-year-olds might think I came out of an archaeological dig. Why were we so obsessed with slap bracelets (and why were they banned from school, for that matter)? Why spend so much of our meager allowances on cardboard circles...