[biotronic]

'School in my opinion is an abstraction that isn't necessary anymore. A relic of the industrial age, when information was sparse and communities were largely illiterate.'

While this may be true for many people, there are plenty of parents out there who would do a much worse job than school would in teaching their children.

Sure, there are parents who are great at homeschooling, and who might even have time to do it (some of them have jobs, I hear), but this is not true for the vast majority.

Schools, in addition to providing some modicum of education, offer children a place to be while their parents are at work, and one where they can interact with others of their age in a controlled environment.

[tokenizer]

I agree that it's better for kids to be supervised then un supervised, but disagree about the age thing. That isn't realistic in terms of the real world.

You don't work with people that are the same age as you, and will most likely have friends with different ages as you get older.

Other than that however, I agree with you. My opinion is one I can only hold personally. I would hate to see certain parents attempting to educate their kids when they aren't intelligent or street smart enough to do it.

I do however think school can do much better. Some sort of Montessori without the pompousness.