grader

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But perhaps the biggest impediment is that the test to become a grader isn’t getting any easier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Kerlin Núñez, a 9th grader at Franklin High School in Highland Park, held up a sign reading: “If your voice held no power … they wouldn’t try to silence you.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2026

The 43-year-old knows Estonian and helps her daughter with her studies, but the first grader confuses Russian and Estonian letters.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

And then Natalie had added in a scornful voice, “For a fifth grader, anyway.”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix