The pathology described by the author isn't see in homeschooling. Yet,...homoschooled adults show superior “socialization” as children and as adults. They are more likely to vote, be a community volunteer, attend church, marry and stay married,...etc. ( The studies are on the HSLDA web site.)
Nearly all the socialization skills needed to survive high school must be unlearned if an adult is to have success in business, and in the home, extended family, and community. Thankfully humans are adaptable and most make the transition.
Treating children like prisoners, marching them about to the sounds of bells, segregating them by age, teaching them subjects in a lockstep manner, all contribute to the formation of cliques. In prison they are called protection gangs.
If you treat kids like prisoners you will get prison social pathology.
I don't think this is true at all. Skill sets find new applications and adapt to new circumstances. high school socialization skills don't have to be unlearned for adult success. I don't buy your point at all.
I think there is a whole lot to what you posted. I excelled at school in the lower grades but I went to a school where they were trying the “track” system for subjects. My parents moved and I ended up in a really lousy jr. high followed by a worse high school.
I hated school by the time I was in high school and was failing nearly every subject when I quit after my Sophmore year- I felt like it was a prison. After I quit school my mother homeschooled me so I could pass the GED; this was in the early 70s before the Homeschool popularity. Mother was on her own in uncharted water because I was the baby of a big family and all my siblings did well in school and finished.
I have to give mom a lot of credit because I excelled academically in college. It was really amusing too, because I went to college when I would have if I had stayed in high school. My peers could not figure out how the class dummy/dropout from high school was setting the curve in college classes.LOL
My youngest daughter followed in my footsteps after her older sisters were the nerds in high school. She is now at the top of her class in a medical tech. program; she is loving school again.
Good observations. My kids have never set foot in a government education facility, and they won't either, unless we hear specifically from God that they need to invade one.