I attended a Christian school, St John's Lutheran, in Elyria, Ohio through the 8th grade. St John's was the school affiliated with my family's church; my grandmother and two of my aunts had also attended it in their youth, though at a different location across town. My mother enrolled me in pre-school, at the time thinking I’d later transition to the local public elementary school having had a head-start on the other kids whose parents hadn’t embraced that oh-so-70’s-progressive-concept of pre-school.
