Zhanteimi

Yes. People never socialized before the advent of public schools.

The Batlord

I'm a ****ing weirdo, but I shudder to think what I would have been like had I not been thrown to the pimply-faced wolves to grow a thick skin.

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Pet_Sounds

I've had, like, seven pimples since I hit puberty. Be jealous of my perfect complexion.

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simplephysics

Don't get ahead of yourself, the suffering has only just begun.

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Pet_Sounds

Nah, I've got good genes. Neither of my parents had acne.

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DwnWthVwls

Yeh I had finals. In like May/June when school was almost over...

Just checked the calendar in my home town and Semester 2 doesn't end until Jan 26, which is around the time midterms would be. Idk, how different schedules are in Cali but you're no where near midterms or finals around here.

No, before public schools kids socialized at work. Education aside you get a lot of life experience going to school.. You're subjected to culture, people with different points of view, bullying, etc. Not sending your child to school for at least a couple of years is a huge disservice, especially if they plan on going to college. And yes I understand there are plenty of extracurricular activities they can do to get similar experiences but it's just not the same.

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Chula Vista

Have to agree. School is not just knowledge education it's also social education. Eventually those kids become adults and have to deal with the real world. Closeting them during the school years might get them better grades but it's going to make the transition to the real world harder IMO.

Unless, of course, you don't get pimples and you hang out on a forum populated with elder degenerates.

Not to mention that school affords the chances of having innocent teenage exploratory sex much more likely.

*fondly remembering Kathy, Donna, and Michelle*

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

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Chula Vista

To be fair, I'm fondly remembering myself as 15-16 too.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I imagine much of that pre-school socialization happened back before kids actually went to school.

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