School doesn’t teach those skills from my personal experience. I was a product of public schooling, the my way or highway attitudes of some teachers, the socia

School doesn’t teach those skills from my personal experience. I was a product of public schooling, the my way or highway attitudes of some teachers, the social isolation, cliches, bullying, teasing, all severely stunted my social development until I was a teenager and began competing in sports team environments, working jobs, and interacting with the public outside of school. After a couple years I was far more developed socially than anything the school environment provided in the decade prior to that. When I hear this reason often used, I fear it’s from people who enjoyed their social life in school due to reasons not actually involving the school, and place too much value in those social dynamics, ignoring the really ugly parts of it that hamper growth for a lot of students, including themselves. My own experiences show they lack any real application to life outside of school. I’ve never had a decent job that worked socially like any school environment I’ve been in, and the one or two I did have were quickly left.