I have never attended an elementary or middle school.
Now before you assume that I have abandoned nine years of school, let me explain. I attended a small Catholic school growing up. It wasn’t defined as a traditional elementary or middle school. To me, a division between the two was nonexistent. I just referred to it as school. My timeline here began with Kindergarten and ended with eighth grade. Classes consisted of the same set of kids with the exception of stragglers that left and joined throughout the years. With the exception of the few that joined later, my grade basically grew up with each other and we were somewhat a close knit family by the start of eighth grade. We had an esoteric understanding of how each person’s dynamic fit