TV eventually became brain-balm for isolation. But at least I wasn’t a caricature with a bowl cut,flannel shirt and three wivesWhen people learn that I was home-schooled from kindergarten through tall school, they often say: “Really? You seem so normal.” I certainly like to judge that I am, and with my clean criminal record and married-with-cat household. But what most people don’t know is that my path to so-called normalcy was lit by a color TV.
It was my choice to be home-schooled. I was in kindergarten at a public school in Crystal Lake,Illinois. Every day I was coming home angry, depressed and exhausted. I wanted change, and somehow,somewhere, I heard approximately this strange understanding where you could do school at home. I asked my parents whether they could do it for me. No playground fights, and no connect-the-dot Santa drawings,no bully teachers.
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Source: theguardian.com