But not when you're a top class La Liga footballer: when Real Betis president Manuel Ruiz de Lopera got wind of his first team players enjoying a wild school-night Halloween bash at the home of midfielder Benjamín, he dragged coach Juande Ramos from his bed and went round to break up the party, sending terrified players clambering out the windows to escape.
The success of wild schooling depends on the circumstances in which children learn, according to Peter Gray, research professor at the Department of Psychology at Boston College, who advocates unschooling.
The state of this particular art can be seen in the eclectic Sunshine, made by the same team - writer Alex Garland, producer Andrew Macdonald and director Danny Boyle - that five years ago collaborated on 28 Days Later, a rather different kind of science fiction, a horror movie of the zombie-running-wild school.
In terms of wild mammals, the beast that might pose the greatest threat, especially for urban and suburban-edge-of-the-wild schools, is the coyote, which has proved adept at navigating rapid, human-induced destruction of its world.
It turns out that suburbanites, by and large, are not wild about school choice, either public or private.
Chances are, same sex slumber parties and wild high school parties do not mix.
Volunteers sign up for a minimum of two weeks, working for the Wild Coast Schools Project, teaching children computer literacy in a solar-powered mobile computer lab in the village of Chintsa, on a stretch of coast famous for its great beaches and surf breaks.
When Jaquinda was a teen-ager, Errol had stayed away from the Higueros household for perfectly good reasons: briefly a wild high schooler, Jaquinda had once shared with him her little supply of cocaine and things had very nearly gone off the rails before Errol sensibly fled to his air-conditioned insurance office.
Through my interest in writing, I've been fortunate to hold leadership positions coeditor of The Archive and music editor for Recess that are well beyond my wildest high-school dreams of what I'd do in college.
"We were kind of wild in high school," he said.
He moved between different homes, had wild outbursts in school, and struggled so much academically that his qualification for a college scholarship was improbable.
