As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).
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Again, not sure how much my school experience was warped cause I was the weird religious kid - but overall it felt more fearful, more impersonal, and more useless than homeschooling did, by a significant margin. If I ever have kids I'm 100% keeping them away from public school.
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Not just you. Pretty accurate.
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From my experience there is usually a greater sense of community in smaller schools. My primary school only had about 45 kids, and there was no bullying at all. When I then went to a high school with 1200 kids that felt impersonal and bullying was rampant.
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But kids also need to learn to interact with people outside their own comfort zone because that reflects the world we live in, and that challenge can be rewarding, but not if their souls are crushed. It depends on the school and the child in particular.
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You're right on most parts, except for the community thing. I'm still very close with friends I made in school. I'm 33 now. And they'll probably be with me till we die.
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Is this a bug or a feature? If the point of school is really to socialize kids for modern urban society, then learning not to trust is important, even if very unpleasant.
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I get the impression public school kids have *significantly less trust* in each other than adults do. Adults typically aren't afraid their peer group might physically beat them up or put them through psychological torment, and adults have the ability to leave.
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I don’t trust strangers, it’s a normal thing, that’s why there’s the saying: “stranger danger”
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