True Left

I distinctly remember the trauma of being forced to go to school, for those first few years. It has affected me to such an extent, that I actually remember my very first day of kindergarten quite vividly, which is a memory that most people would probably lose to time, or at the very least would melt away into the general memory of kindergarten as a whole. I completely broke down and started bawling, begging my mom not to take me. Crying was a common occurrence for the first couple of grades after kindergarten as well. At some point I just accepted it, although my distaste for the schooling system never went away, and followed me all the way until I graduated high school. My mom did a pretty good job homeschooling me and providing me with fun and educational material that required no coaxing or force before I had to go to school, so it's more proof that the current schooling system needs a severe overhaul, or at the very least, it shouldn't be mandatory. If the government had allowed children to go to school on their own terms, when they felt they were ready, my mom would have probably chosen that, since she still refuses to talk about how it all played out to this day, out of the sheer guilt