Home Student 2013 🆓

"Kid, who built this?"

"A home-schooler?" she said, one eyebrow raised. "You guys are like Bigfoot. People talk about you, but nobody’s ever actually seen one." home student 2013

Leo thought about it. "I used to," he admitted. "But 2013 is weird. I have friends in Australia. I've seen the Northern Lights on a webcam in real-time. I'm not lonely. I'm just... separate." "Kid, who built this

It was 2013, and the word "viral" still meant a cat playing a keyboard. For Leo, a home-schooled sixteen-year-old in a small Nebraska town, the internet was less a distraction and more a lifeline. His classroom was the creaky sunroom of his parents’ farmhouse, a space filled with the smell of old paper and the faint hum of a dial-up router they’d finally upgraded to DSL. "I used to," he admitted