Lupe even remembers her score.
“I scored a sixty-four, which classified
me as seriously retarded, not even
teachable,” she said. “I was put into first
grade with a class of six-year-olds. My
duties were to take the little kids to the
bathroom and to cut out pictures.” The
classroom activities were a total mystery
to Lupe—they were all conducted in
English. And she was humiliated by the
other children, who teased her for being
“so much older and so much dumber”
than they were.