I was effectively hard-unschooled during my teenage years. I can't really complain about the experience. Most of my time was spent playing video games, reading,

I was effectively hard-unschooled during my teenage years. I can't really complain about the experience. Most of my time was spent playing video games, reading, or debating people online in forums. I got my GED when I was seventeen and went to college. I had strange ideas about what college was (namely, I thought the PR copy universities provided was the "real thing" and was sorely disappointed to discover what amounted to an adult half-way house for professional employment rather than an actual place of learning). In retrospect and purely on educational and financial grounds, I regret attending college, as I could've obtained the same information by paying for a community borrower's pass from the library to the same effect but without the pedigree. My parents didn't do it for any ideological purpose; we simply lived in a bad area and they couldn't afford the tuition the Catholic schools were charging. My other siblings were sent to the local public high school, which was (and sadly remains) the worst in the state. Their life outcomes were much worse than my own.