Now I understand. A very lovely boy disappeared from River Sprite’s school a while ago. Home schooling we learned . Oh yes. Quite understood. Parents card carrying hippies- alternative, vegan types with, pierced- noses and cobalt-blue streaks in their hair. Then ….not long after…well, maybe 2 terms later he mysteriously reappeared . No explanation offered apparently. So demure. Good haircut. Immaculate uniform, beautifully pressed. Lovely to see him back! How so? Now I understand. I am struggling with the mundanity and repetitive nature of home schooling. The most GHASTLY of all occupations.
Fuming with rage, pouring over the bloody books and wretched Google Classroom. Have to actually sit on my hands the while, in case I explode, tear my hair out in large clumps and run round kitchen howling like a wolf and spraying urine. This is hell, unremitting hell.
All over Britain parents must be wringing their hands with the utter and complete misery of it.
The River Files 