Great Comment on Public Schooling
" This is probably because they interact socially with a far less age-segregated set of people (our public school system is really quite unique, and profoundly unnatural that way, it is as if someone read Lord of the Flies and decided it was prescriptive rather than descriptive)."
(Jehu, on Robin Hanson's blog, commenting on why he finds home schooled children much more likable than public school children)