[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.