I was among the worst students in middle and high school. Friends and I avoided school as much as possible. Was not so much that we were off drugging and partying. Spent most of the time in the woods with the newts and frogs and turtles. Studying the wilds on our own. I still have my nature ledger, which holds our observations Funny. All of us had a bad reputation, but we all ended up going to grad school and getting advanced degrees.
you did better than me, i spent my time chasing girls. i suppose you could call that spending time in nature