I definitely have mixed feelings about it. I’m grateful for the skills I learned during my time there (I learned a lot of life skills, like how to mend old clothes, basic cooking, how to start a fire, etc) and being there shaped a lot of my beliefs and personality. I’m grateful for the memories of it, too, because I’m not sure many kids in my generation can say that they spent a good amount of the first decade of their life immersed in nature and the arts. I will say, though, that I felt incredibly alienated when I entered the public school system and realized that my childhood was wildly different from most peoples. I hadn’t had grades before public school, didn’t learn to read until I was 8, and spent most of my time in classes that didn’t exist in public schools, so I spent a long time resenting my old school for making me feel so different from everyone else. I still have moments like that, too, when I remember that most of my current friends and peers didn’t learn about Norse mythology and Judaism and spent an hour a day knitting when they were little, but nowadays I’m more or less happy with my experiences.