I dwell in Asgard

16 year old Sherlock : Good.

Mycroft : Which included a reminder notice that next month’s parent teacher night has been moved to next Thursday.

Sherlock : Less good.

Mycroft : Sherlock-

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14 year old Sherlock is expelled from his school.

There isn’t a single other good school that Mycroft could send him to (except for boarding schools, but Mycroft never considers them as options). Mycroft has no choice but to homeschool him. He tutors him himself, and gives him assignments to do while he attends his university classes (while the family cook/housekeeper looks after him).

This arrangement goes on for a couple of months, until Mycroft convinces Sherlock’s school to take him back (after much politicking).

Sherlock gets in trouble on his first day back to school. Mycroft is beyond exasperated, but the cook asks him not to be angry with his little brother, who might have done this on purpose. Off Mycroft’s confused look, she explains that Sherlock has obviously enjoyed spending time with his big brother, and preferred to be taught by him than school teachers. Mycroft looks at her dubiously, until she adds that staying with his big brother must have been especially comforting after the recent deaths of their parents.

And Sherlock has confided to her that he felt like he was a burden to his brother, and that Mycroft might see him even more like a burden once he graduates from university and takes over the world - which will happen in less than a month. This incident at school might have just been his way of testing Mycroft.