[tarsinge]

I hope it works for you. My parents chose to leave me in the normal school and curriculum "because that would surely make me normal". It was miserable for me. Social skills never came naturally, I was isolated and bullied, and bored to death in classes. At the end of my childhood the results were trauma and bad grades. I'm quite sure I would have been happier getting more stimulated on what I loved. They made the common mistake of thinking that improving skills you are already strong would be somehow detrimental to others.

[aleph_minus_one]

> It was miserable for me. Social skills never came naturally, I was isolated and bullied, and bored to death in classes. At the end of my childhood the results were trauma and bad grades.

Concerning the social skills argument: the only "social skill" that school teaches is becoming capable of hating other people so much that you deep from your heart wish them to be dead.

[aklemm]

Herding kids of all the same age into daily hours of structured instruction is an anti-socialization, I'm sure of it.

[eitally]

Perhaps for a small segment of the school-going population but this is not universal and you know it.

[aleph_minus_one]

> Perhaps for a small segment of the school-going population but this is not universal and you know it.

Indeed: there exist perpetrators and victims (or specifically for bullying: the bullies and the bullied ones). And there exist people who are simply "blind" to what happens around them.

[DiggyJohnson]

Cmon. There is everything to learn in school in regards to socialization, perhaps besides cross cohort-socialization.

[wanderingbort]

Well, we aren’t trying to make them normal. Just using the school system to provide opportunities we cannot.

Out of curiosity, did you feel as though you got stimulated in the topics you loved outside of school? We are trying hard to amplify anything we can rather than suppress or ignore it.