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Originally Posted by Buehler445
School is very much a social exercise as it is an academic one.
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Ty is right. You're making an assumption that public school today is much like it was 30, 20, or even 10 years ago.
When I was in school, we got 50 minutes for lunch in elementary. My youngest daughter, as a 3rd grader, got TEN. They weren't allowed to talk. The entire lunch room was silent, you could hear a pin drop. If they got caught talking, they docked recess time.
And they went from 3 recesses, 15 minutes each, to two, each 7 minutes.
There's very little real social interaction going on in school anymore until the kids get much older, which is incidentally when things like study hall and open campus gets introduced and kids get to actually make decisions for themselves. Until that point, they're pretty much herded like lab rats.