Editing August Casso (section)

=== Elementary School Daze (2003-2011) ===
August would enroll in Yates' City Elementary School upon turning 6 years old (his birthday being on the cutoff, his mother elected to wait a year due to, her words, his being too short)for Kindergarten in Mrs. Dooley's 2003 Kindergarten Class. This would be the final year Yates CIty would operate the elementary as it and several other local elementary schools would combine their student bodies to form Farmington Elementary/J/HS the following year. While August would initially react poorly to school and being seperated from his parents due to increased isolation from anyone outside them or his grandmother, he would form a few friendships during his one year at Yates which would blossom into several strong bonds at Farmington throughout the 1st-4th grades he attended there.

Following the fourth grade, his parents would purchase a home a few miles closer to Maquon and move counties from Peoria to Knox, and school districts from Farmington to Spoon River. SRV was their step father's childhood school, which also had their cousins from their step dad's side in attendance, but August would not adapt well to the sudden change and struggled with being bullied and making connections for their first few years there (5th through 8th grades). This is not to say they had none, however, but it would be their Freshman year of Highschool that they really came into their own.