I feel for kids who think they have to go to school to have something to do…there’s a whole world of ‘things to do’ happening right under your noses if only you would take the initiative and put yourselves out there; break the pattern of spoonfeeding that (scaringly) seems to exist so often in school dependent kids, no doubt a side effect of the inevitable institutionalisation that comes from ‘going to school’.

But a bit of me still wants to go back to see my friends and do something with myself rather than sitting here at home

It is much easier to be homeschooled if that is all you know. Kids in public schools end up being peer-dependent, and it is bad for them. Homeschoolers learn to entertain themselves and relate to kids of varying ages. Public school kids don’t. It’s too bad.