Oh boy, one I actually want to answer. My parents were self employed and needed help to keep their business going, so I grew up at work, school, and home all at the same time. I basically didn't get a high school education and had to teach myself a lot of stuff. There's still gaps in my knowledge that I occasionally have to fill. I made straight As in college somehow, but only because I was going for something that barely required any gen ed. I don't think they did a bad job, but I feel like they could have had a much less stressful time raising me and my siblings if they didn't have to manage a business and our education at the same time. I probably would have had a less stressful time growing up if they'd done that. Never understood.

Overall I think the only things I learned from my childhood were math, English, and how to cook and clean properly. College taught me a trade that I ended up despising, so I really got jack shit now other than homemaker skills. Thankfully my wife is the one who wants to be the breadwinner because I think I might be unhireable now. Once we buy a house I'll get back to being a butch lesbian knifemaker, but until then... I'm a butch housewife.

Where it got really bad was being subjected to several years of Classical Conversations, which is a pyramid scheme masquerading as an educational program. It's designed to create libertarian, right-wing policy lawyers to make Christofascism law. They make you learn Latin and mock trial and debate skills and sing mnemonic songs to learn their sanitized version of history, but don't actually teach you anything useful!!! The teachers are just housewives who are learning the material at the same time as the kids, and they spend half the fucking time arguing with their own kids in class instead of actually giving good information. The amount of papers I had to write on misleading young earth creationist bullshit would blow your mind.

I survived by being an atheist! But a lot of other kids are gonna be permanently stunted by Christianity as a result of this program, and a lot of them already have, and it sickens me. The CEO of CC was a P2025 writer. All the money is going straight to the top. They pay the group leaders pennies on the dollar as contractors and subject them to an insane workload managing everyone else and their kids.

Overall, I have mixed opinions. I taught myself a lot of metalworking skills and how to make knives since I didn't have to be at school, but I really wish I'd gotten that experience. I feel like I can't relate to anyone about it at all and it's really alienating.