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It also supports another common sense observation, which is that mixed-age schooling results in much better behavioral outcomes. Kids don’t obsess over their pl

It also supports another common sense observation, which is that mixed-age schooling results in much better behavioral outcomes. Kids don’t obsess over their place in the artificial Lord of the Flies hierarchy when there are younger and older kids around to provide frequent role reversals.

sjg007 6y ago
Has that been studied?
- quercusa 6y ago
  Anecdota: Mixed-age groups of home-schooled kids (e.g., at co-op events) tend to just play, with the older ones typically watching out for the younger kids, whether they are siblings or not. Mixed-age groups of formally-schooled kids begin by setting up a hierarchy that usually depends on grade in school* and then is continually refined. * H-S kids in a mixed group are immediately marked as outsiders by this question. They either don't know or operate at different levels in different subjects.
  - GVIrish 6y ago
    Home schooled kids are typically in groups of far, far smaller sizes. The social dynamics of a high school with 2000 students is naturally going to be different than the dynamics of a home school of a dozen or so.
    - Footkerchief 6y ago
      I think the point is that the ingrained dynamics continue even when the context / group size evens out later.
- fuzzfactor 6y ago
  >Has that been studied? Depends on how studious you are.
fuzzfactor 6y ago
One primary thing that stands out as actual humanity are behaviors which are almost never dominant in any other beings, and which further the progress of true civilization. Which is of course supposed to be civil if nothing else. Anything less is realistically a lack of human nature, often still remaining along a not-completely-civilized continuum. So _human nature_ should never be used as an excuse for uncivil behavior, and further progress can best be made by recognizing _lack of human nature_ as the problem instead. This should be obvious to behaviorists but once you go there you've got to figure lots of them would need more _common sense_, except there still remains some prevalence to _common lack of sense_ . . .

sjg007 6y ago

Has that been studied?

quercusa 6y ago
Anecdota: Mixed-age groups of home-schooled kids (e.g., at co-op events) tend to just play, with the older ones typically watching out for the younger kids, whether they are siblings or not. Mixed-age groups of formally-schooled kids begin by setting up a hierarchy that usually depends on grade in school* and then is continually refined. * H-S kids in a mixed group are immediately marked as outsiders by this question. They either don't know or operate at different levels in different subjects.
- GVIrish 6y ago
  Home schooled kids are typically in groups of far, far smaller sizes. The social dynamics of a high school with 2000 students is naturally going to be different than the dynamics of a home school of a dozen or so.
  - Footkerchief 6y ago
    I think the point is that the ingrained dynamics continue even when the context / group size evens out later.
fuzzfactor 6y ago
>Has that been studied? Depends on how studious you are.

fuzzfactor 6y ago

One primary thing that stands out as actual humanity are behaviors which are almost never dominant in any other beings, and which further the progress of true civilization. Which is of course supposed to be civil if nothing else. Anything less is realistically a lack of human nature, often still remaining along a not-completely-civilized continuum. So _human nature_ should never be used as an excuse for uncivil behavior, and further progress can best be made by recognizing _lack of human nature_ as the problem instead. This should be obvious to behaviorists but once you go there you've got to figure lots of them would need more _common sense_, except there still remains some prevalence to _common lack of sense_ . . .