Quote: The reality is that there are a high percentage of people who couldn't wait to get out of school and who carry the psychological scars of the socialization they incurred.
I went to 5 different schools when I was in the 5th grade.
School One I hated because of the peer pressure / put-downs, from the group I was not part of.
School two, especially the teacher who was on top of what was going inside and outside the classroom, was a dream to attend. Little peer pressure and most negative peer pressure was squashed.
A third school would have been good for me, but I only went there a month. Little negative peer pressure.
The forth school, well I can say it rained almost the whole month and we did not go outside very oftem. Couple that with a teacher that was hell to be around and threatened to put kids hands in ths school's furnace if we did not tow the line, be quiet, and learn like he thought we should learn. I was so glad we moved in two months. Peer pressure? No, we had to stick together.
School five was such a relief from school 4, anything we did was fine with me at first but the "roudy boys group" started to be a problem. Peer pressure eventually got to be anoying. (Most of the roudy boys dropped out of school by the 10 grade.)
Maybe not any reasons to home school or not homeschool but teachers attitude and skill levels in and outside the class and peer behaviors do influence what is learned in school and affect peoples adult life.
When I went to work in a mix of people of different ages and was not in competition with peers all of the time, I felt so much better. I was one of those people who could not wait to get out of school. I use to think that I was one of those slightly slow learners but discovered I wasn't when I went to college.
One difference between school and college was a lack of peer pressure, college credit could be earned at the rate you chose, and you could mix clases as you saw fit, even register for Profs. you liked.
