We know that grades were very important to Lucas growing up. Socially inept, Lucas round refuge in his home work. According to the fat faggot:
I was a very shy kid. I didn't have a ton of friends growing up. All I wanted was to get good grades and graduate with a good grade-point average so I could get into a decent college. I was already showing solid A's in Running Start during 11th grade. For a long time I excelled in school and did well at the college level (Running Start). I was often in the top of my percentile.
Perhaps some of his focus on grades was an attempt to differentiate himself from his little brother, Seth, whom Lucas saw as a social threat.
My mental capacity was fairly limited to getting good grades and fawning over girls like a buffoon. I didn't know how to ask for help in this area. It seemed to come so naturally to even my little brother. I would make fun of him for having trouble spelling or doing poor in school because he fared much better in the social scenes.
In any event, it was apparently very important to little Lucas that he be seen as smart. It's tempting to imagine that he tried to use his grades to fashion an identity for himself:
I am not the fat faggot, I am the smart kid. He might have been the creepy kid in class, but at least he wasn't the dunce. And it wasn't like Lucas was going to receive positive attention for being athletic, good looking, funny, or charming. No, being smart might have been his best chance to be something besides a fat faggot.
To that extent, his interest in academics was tied to his social deficits. Lucas didn't have many friends. Lucas didn't understand how to behave around other kids. This is why he gravitated towards his books. Lucas's social deficits grew worse over time, and by HS, he was routinely having crying fits over his lack popularity and romantic success. Lucas no longer sought refuge in his books, but turned to drugs.
My own senior year is when I started drinking and smoking weed to loosen up so I could talk to girls without crying or my muscles turning into deviled ham. It helped a little bit. I wasn't so nervous but my grades and class attendance suffered. Go figure. At this time, it was as if the roles started to reverses. Suddenly I wanted to rebel while Seth started to become more grounded and buckled down at school. I started losing focus and getting out of touch. I struggled.
Lucas did not graduate from high school.
To the best of my knowledge, he has never publicly addressed the circumstances of his withdrawal in 1997. For a time, he attempted to earn his HS diploma through a correspondence course, but he was apparently unable to balance the demands of working in fast food and taking remedial classes.
Lucas continued his formal education 20 years later, when he attended Spokane Community College. Lucas took an assessment test, and was placed in Math 92, a basic algebra class, and English 99, "Improvement of Writing." You might call them remedial classes. They aren't exactly college level.
Lucas did not pass Math 92.
Note that this is the same fellow who once claimed to have designed a functional time machine.
As for his other classes, Lucas is alleged to have made "honor roll," which says more about SCC's honor roll than it does about Lucas. Some of Lucas's English assignments were leaked, and they're worth a read. I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone who hasn't read them.
Now, Lucas has returned to SCC. I've yet to see anything about his schedule, but I look forward to his assignments being leaked.
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