From my own experience of criticizing the school system in meatspace, people think you’re supposed to be socialized by your classmates. This is often claimed as the “real” purpose of school, usually after you’ve demolished any claim that they, y’know, educate kids.
IIRC, when public education was first debated, the arguement was that it would create good citizens. Hence the focus of social studies and history.
And I concur, the main purpose for school seems put children into a society and let them develop from there. Not that it does its job particularly well, but there you go.
From my own experience of criticizing the school system in meatspace, people think you’re supposed to be socialized by your classmates. This is often claimed as the “real” purpose of school, usually after you’ve demolished any claim that they, y’know, educate kids.
IMO children being socialized by each other is one of the problems with schools. It’s surprising most people turn out as well as they do...
Apparently someone did an actual study to see if homeschooled kids were poorly socialized. They weren’t.
I don’t think they checked for antisocial behavior, just social skills and, I dunno, maybe friends? It’s been a while since I saw it.
EDIT: Actually, I think there was a note about homeschoolers being less vulnerable to peer pressure, however they measured that.
IIRC, when public education was first debated, the arguement was that it would create good citizens. Hence the focus of social studies and history.
And I concur, the main purpose for school seems put children into a society and let them develop from there. Not that it does its job particularly well, but there you go.