Why did Margie feel that the …

 She thought that the old kind of school must have been fun as she imagined all the kids from the entire neighbourhood coming together, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard. She imagined that they would sit together in the classroom and go home together at the end of the day. They would learn the same things and could help one another with the homework and talk about it. Also, the teachers were people. All these aspects made her believe that the old kind of school must have been fun.

Margie hated school because her school was quite mechanical. The school was at her home. It was a room with a computer teacher in it. the computer teacher was devoid of all the qualities that a human teacher has. There were no classmates in the class. She had to study all by herself. She had particularly started hating her school more because of late the mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she was not doing well in them.