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Amen. I consider these large public schools as "youth ghettos," where kids learn the worst language and behavior present in the community. That's not the way human beings are supposed to be raised. Kids are naturally inclined to learn from and model themselves on adults. When adults are absent or abdicate responsibility, the situation can become hellish, almost like a prison, where a dominance order is established by violence or intimidation.

Human society is somewhat like that of wolves. Recent studies show that wolves in nature do not live in packs of unrelated individuals who battle for dominance; that's a myth based on studies of unrelated wolves in captivity. Real wolves live in family groups; the leader is the father, who is authoritarian but benevolent and is hardly ever challenged. That's how people lived for much of human history. Kids learned from their parents or other close relatives.