The great thing about schools is they throw hundreds or thousands of kids together. The fat ones, the skinny ones, the annoying ones, the gross ones, the white

The great thing about schools is they throw hundreds or thousands of kids together. The fat ones, the skinny ones, the annoying ones, the gross ones, the white ones, the black ones, the mean ones, the cool ones, the weird ones, everyone. And you're FORCED to be around them and make it work. And then you do that every day for 12 years. This is all anecdotal of course, but of all the homeschooled kids I knew, even going into highschool, they were freaks of nature. I mean, just deeply unlikable people. They were always "off", often rude, often meek, and had this sort of air of desperation for socialization, with none of the tools to make it work. Now, some of them grew out of it - I met some in highschool working at the Dairy Queen. Turns out, a couple of years of dealing with food service will help you out socially too. But a lot of them never did. Not when I knew them, anyway. I don't know why, I don't know how, and I can't tell what, exactly, about the public school experience causes this. But it's what I've observed.