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There will be plenty of peer pressure, bullying, drug and sex culture in their adult life, unless they are going straight from unschooling to off-grid subsisten
by jojobas 4y ago
There will be plenty of peer pressure, bullying, drug and sex culture in their adult life, unless they are going straight from unschooling to off-grid subsistence farming.
Weird as it sounds, the earlier you come in contact with many human pathologies the better.
You might not want to be a corporate drone, being socialized differently to almost everyone is just another extreme.
- eloff 4y agoSocializing is fine, but school just seems about the worst possible expression of it.
- jojobas 4y agoDepends. Out of five schools I went to, one was crap. Schools also cycle between getting core groups of people who care, becoming good, getting reputation for being good and attracting people who don't care and stopping being good. Still, I'd say there's way more consistency between schools than between unorthodox parents.
- luckylion 4y agoBullying is _much_ worse in school than in your later life in my experience. Yes, you can still get terrible people that gang up on someone in an office, but it's much less common than in school. Most people who are behaving like sociopaths in middle school appear to grow out of it and lead normal lives.
- auganov 4y agoThese kinds of arguments come up a lot when it comes to homeschooling. But would anyone follow the same logic when picking a school? There are certainly nice schools that don't have too many of these problems. Are these bad choices then? Should one find the most ghetto public school? If your country has only nice schools, how about sending your kids to a rougher country?
- jojobas 4y agoThe school should match your future life. If you expect your kids to be sheltered for the rest of their lives, go ahead and homeschool.