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> We send kids to school, in the hope they get some education, but the reality is that we use schools for free childcare while we work

We also send kids to school to learn social skills they can't learn by themselves.

My kids sometimes watch science shows (on TV as well as online) and tell me all kinds of fascinating facts about black holes and the human immune system and {insert_huge_list_of_stuff_I_don't_fully_understand}. That's the easy bit.

"Getting along with other people" isn't something you learn ... by yourself.



May I suggest that the kids of HN commentators are being sampled from a very different distribution than the kids of the general public.




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