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NikolaiFyodorov  ·  4628 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will kids still be going to school in 2025?

How much social etiquette do you really learn at school, though? Holding doors open for others is certainly something I associate more with being taught by my parents and grandparents than teachers.

Conversely, one could present a reasonable counter-argument that school has a deleterious effect on many children's social and emotional development. I sometimes lament the fact that my own high schooling occurred before widespread adoption of the internet; it seems to me that alienated or neurotic adolescents have a much better chance nowadays of meeting others with similar temperament or inclinations by going online than was possible for them in the mid-90s.