Great to read your success story. My own kids have similar experiences, and none of them think I deprived them of anything by not sending them to school. Two o

Great to read your success story. My own kids have similar experiences, and none of them think I deprived them of anything by not sending them to school. Two of my three children easily got to self-sufficiency. My youngest, 21 now, has not. Ironically that’s mainly because he chose to go to school, first public high school and then college. He has slowed his path to self-sufficiency by putting himself in a system that imposes arbitrary requirements (credits, tests) and timetables for graduation geared to group conformity and performance. And he still has to work hard on his own to actually learn anything. I support his decisions (and pay for them) but I can’t help but think he could be self-sufficient already, more or less, if he hadn’t added the drag and friction of school to his life. I would understand if he needed credentials for medicine or law or teaching, but I think he could have learned Spanish faster by living abroad for a couple of years rather than going to classes. I did suggest that but I have to eat my own dog food and respect his choices, at least for another year or two.