moving to the wild with children

^That looks good. Watched the trailer.
I'm gonna rent it.

 

That's it! Thank you Monkey Boy. The scenario from the OP reminds me of this movie.

 

Score. Guess it's on Amazon prime.

 

I don't consider the op's idea as something that will ruin a kid's life at all. Forcing a child into the soul-crushing conformity of public schools, however, followed by the equally soul-crushing lifestyle of a 9-5 wage slave with the endless pursuit of "stuff", could easily be considered a form of abuse that 'ruins a kid's life".

As for home-schooling, every kid I know that was home schooled is far smarter and well-balanced than ANY of the public school kids I know. One got her LPN while most kids were in school, and finished her RN before most of them got to college. She had 9 out of 10 markers for Down's Syndrome, and is one of the smartest women I know. She's now married to a doctor, close to 30, and lives way better than most public schooled kids I've known. She is not the exception....she's the rule for all the home-schooled kids I know.

 

The wildest place is the sea.

 

My reply:
Now you know someone else. It was somewhat weird.