Especially in the first days of deschooling, it is often the case that children mainly want to recover from the school surroundings and therefore will generally sleep very long and refuse any kind of intentional learning and instead search for substitute satisfactions like watching TV or playing video games, very similar to the behavior during early school holidays.
Many followers of the modern homeschool movement consider this step necessary because the school system can damage the innate creativity, curiosity, and willingness to learn in children.
[6] They claim that in school most children only study under unnatural extrinsic pressure like grades, instead of for themselves, and that what, when, how, and with whom to learn is always predetermined instead of self-determinable there.
[2] Deschooling is credited to Ivan Illich, who felt that the traditional schooling children received needed to be reconstructed.
[10] Illich believed that schools contain a "hidden curriculum" that causes learning to align with grades and accreditation rather than with important skills.