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Ah, yes. The "normal people" canard. It's very tiresome. I refer you to a prior comment of mine and the ensuing chain from the usual HN homeschooling merry-go-round a year ago [0].

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>> You can also learn outside of school, too.

> As someone who spent time in all three, I felt that my academic time was utterly wasted in public school. Sure, "learning outside" is always available, but that doesn't regain the time served in government mandated kid-prison.

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>> No it wasn't! You learned how to interact with normal people. That's a lifelong skill.

> It taught me the necessity of being as viciously crass as my new classmates in order to fit in. If you consider that normal, then let it be known that I'm perfectly fine sticking with abnormal people thank you very much. I am perfectly content learning the lessons of Lord of the Flies by reading, and not by getting thrown into a small re-enactment of it.

> Though I suppose public middle school psychology was useful when I was an internment camp guard in southern Iraq. I'll grant you that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42249295