So that suggests a middle ground between your current level of engagement and dropping out entirely. If there are things you think would be more valuable* than one of those activities, and you think you have the mechanisms to motivate yourself to do them, do so.
“Unschooling” won’t help with the lack of available time or motivation. It’s the wrong granularity to make your decisions on—think about how you spend individual hours of time, not how you identify your current lifestyle.
Which of those things (directed studying, sports participation, dinner, shower, family activities, distractions, other projects) do you not think you’re getting value from, and want to do less of? What do you want to do instead? For most sets of answers that pass the sniff test of reasonably long-term valuable, you’ll be better off making those tradeoffs within the traditional school framework than outside of it.
Edited to add: holidays and weekends are excellent natural experiments, and can help shape your beliefs about what you’d actually do with more self-directed time. If you undertook something over the summer that you think provides more long-term value to your life than one of your current activities, you should definitely consider continuing it. I’d recommend posting a more specific question on discussion or an open thread “should I give up cross-country in favor of building a telescope” or whatever the specific choice you’re making is.
So that suggests a middle ground between your current level of engagement and dropping out entirely. If there are things you think would be more valuable* than one of those activities, and you think you have the mechanisms to motivate yourself to do them, do so.
“Unschooling” won’t help with the lack of available time or motivation. It’s the wrong granularity to make your decisions on—think about how you spend individual hours of time, not how you identify your current lifestyle.
Which of those things (directed studying, sports participation, dinner, shower, family activities, distractions, other projects) do you not think you’re getting value from, and want to do less of? What do you want to do instead? For most sets of answers that pass the sniff test of reasonably long-term valuable, you’ll be better off making those tradeoffs within the traditional school framework than outside of it.
Edited to add: holidays and weekends are excellent natural experiments, and can help shape your beliefs about what you’d actually do with more self-directed time. If you undertook something over the summer that you think provides more long-term value to your life than one of your current activities, you should definitely consider continuing it. I’d recommend posting a more specific question on discussion or an open thread “should I give up cross-country in favor of building a telescope” or whatever the specific choice you’re making is.