How native speakers pronounce “grade”

Three years into college, I had a 1.491 grade point average that I was dragging around. I was smoking a pack of Camel Lights a day.

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I received my gifts. My first grade teacher had this brilliant idea. She wanted us to experience receiving gifts

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and was then only enhanced by doing gross experiments in my sixth-grade biology class. We did things like, we swabbed surfaces around our classroom

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Today in Afghanistan, girls are not allowed to attend school past sixth grade. It is a crime.

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In fact, I didn't even pass the president's physical fitness test in sixth grade. (Laughter)

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You might imagine that it looks a little like this. This was me in sixth grade, and like many middle school students,

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