Will Taking Your Kids Out of School Ruin Their Future?

Taking the kids out of school was the most frightening part of going. It felt like hitting a big red eject button on their future. Eight years and a full circumnavigation later, both boys are back on land and reintegrated, and the honest answer is: they were fine. Better than fine. Just not in the ways a report card measures.This is the answer to the question more Telegraph readers asked than any other. Their academic side held up. What threw them was the slow grind of the institutional school day on the way back in. Yewan can't understand why school takes a whole day to teach what the boat taught in two hours. Darry was refused GCSE biology, and now gives talks on entomology.We also disagree, properly, about whether an AI tutor could ever beat a real teacher. We didn't reach a verdict.Cockpit Sessions is the podcast where we work through the book behind our eight-year family circumnavigation, one conversation at a time.📖 Book (working title) and free sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook🎬 More from us: https://www.mothershipadrift.com