Many Japanese children refuse to go to school

Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school by coldtea on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:11PM (#21869039)

Kids, since millennia, had hanged out and played in communities with kids of the same roughly age (and some bigger and scarier) before mandatory education / school was a thing...

It's not like absence of school meant kids would just be alone in their homes...

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Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:36AM (#21883176)

But, why do you say same-aged children? In the generally smaller communities of the past having [lots of] children of the same year of age would be much rarer.

In the village I grew up in the out-of-school friend groups were often across several years of age; and that's from a background of schooling.

Kids I know now, that are non-schooled, have very broad age-groups of friends and seem, to me, to be much more comfortable with company of any age.

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