Luckily for me, I wasn’t raised in an off-grid cabin by religious zealots who failed to teach me about the holocaust. In fact, I spent the vast majority of my K-12 years in secular public charter schools. Even better, I was never a delinquent, either. Sure, I spent much of high school days riding dirtbikes and fostering an addiction to World of Warcraft, and I did eventually get too sick to attend school for a while that nearly led to my parents getting charged with truancy.

But, in the end, everything was okay, and I survived. Hell, during my last three semesters of high school, largely thanks to Dr. Eric Smith, I actually thrived academically! 

To be continued…