Response to human nature paper

Why You Truly Never Leave High School

 Paragraph 22, "Until the Great Depression..."

This practice of separating us by age for school creates an unnatural environment, one that never used to exist. This decreases our interactions with adults, therefore removing a large variety of role-models to learn from and along side with. Before the institution of school (here, specifically, high school),  kids grew up in their own way, but now we all go to school and partake in the social experiment. Back 50, 100 years ago, you could take an available job, you could look after your siblings, or you could attend school if your parents were wealthy enough--all different paths to growing up, most that had daily interactions with  a variety of people of the same interests, and of different ages. In our own world of social norms, hierarchies, and values we are separate from the adult culture. We don't have the same responsibilities and experiences as them, so our priorities are different. Also on the topic of child labor, in some cases in is more instrumental that a child help out his starving family by making money at a job no matter their young age, as going to school will not help their food situation then and there. I do believe that restrictions should be in place for the type and duration of the work, but also there should be some leniency, as it is for the greater good, and they will be more healthily socialized afterwards.