There are pros and cons of both schooling at home as well as schooling at school, at home a child does not become aware of the outside world, and at school he only learns about books and the students of his own age, he can't learn from one who is slightly elder from him. Pros are followed by cons and cons are followed by pros

I watched youe video the other day about schooling your kids at some alternative institution. I can't agree more,while we lost 10 years of struggle with irrelevant informations we could develope passion about specific things which we choosed instead of fucking authorities. Cheers!

That is truth who you say about public schools. Kids need different ages to have a lot of stimuli. You're right. Thanks for posting.

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there are not a lot of textbooks or lectures left in schools here but you make a very good point about how it is not any sort of socialization to group children into age cohorts. Indeed children do best in mixed age groups, that is what is natural. Like the old one room schoolhouse.

I totally agree with you. Socialization is not the problem. School is. My kids were involved in community sports, played with friends' kids and were generally active in things that "normal" school kids do after school. They did better learning at home and were further advanced in their education than their so called peers in public school. They were happier and I think better adjusted and ready to take on the world than many public schooled kids.

It's looking interesting , I am very impressed :)
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My children do BJJ and will be doing 4-H soon.  They get plenty of "socialization."  The children they hang out with are better peers than what they would have in a dumbed down government school too.

Very cute!!Looks  fun:)
I am doing work involving children.

Wow. I never really though about age segregation and isolation before. Thank you for the insight @kafkanarchy84

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I love this post because I can totally relate. I got asked this question the other day. Some of your insights and observations on this have given me some more food for thought on how to answer these kinds of questions in a succinct way. Thanks!

Great post @kafkanarchy84!  Being a parent now of a home schooled child, I am beginning to understand a little better. Diversity is the key.  In public schools, kids only relate to what they are told to learn, with same age peers only.

  In the workplace I see it every day.  New hires that show up out of public school graduation and look at someone in their 40s like they are from another planet.   Learning from and interacting with all age groups helps develop a more prepared person.

Interesting piece.  You wrote:

>To me, the really detrimental isolation aspect occurs in the public schools themselves. Kids need to interact with lots of different age groups to grow up with a balanced outlook, sense of real security, competence, and sense of time and place, and their own roles within their respective communities.

Do you think schools that have grades K-8 do better than schools that are K-5 when it comes to interaction?  When my son was an 8th graders, he would read to the 1st and 2nd grades for community service hours.  I think the goals of this activity is to achieve the type of interaction you detailed above.

I couldn't agree more. Home schooled children draw from a rich and varied social community. There are however always "fors" and "againsts" whether it's home schooling or state schools, and different ways of looking at these things. 
Aside from parents who don't make an effort in either situation, perhaps another way of looking at it, is in a similar way to parents who choose to work as opposed to those who choose to stay at home to look after their children. 
"What is good for the parent is good for the child !!"

great post!

Just in the point! 
when i make my posts about unschooling, the most common question from commentors is about socialization.
It seems to me their kids go only to school and back to home, are they prisoners?
You've described the topic perfectly, I shake your hand-)

socialization is key to development, I don't think you are wrong in your point that schools corner off the kids. 
However, the weekends are all up to you as a parent. 
Finding places for your children to socialize with any other children is key to their development. 
You have interesting posts, would enjoy the conversation