Student pays off fourth grade height wager with pizza party

Eighteen years ago, when Galen McGraw was a fourth grader at Jennings Elementary School, he was the shortest boy in his class. There was only one girl who was shorter.

He confided in his teacher, Sharon Hall, that he knew he was going to remain short for his entire life.

“He had a melt-down one day, and I was trying to console him,” Hall said. “I said, ‘You will grow. I bet you will be taller than me some day.’”

To back up her promise, she offered to buy Galen pizza if some day he didn’t top her height. If he did grow taller, he had to buy the pizza.

“I’m only 5’4”,” Hall said, so she assumed...