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What is school - an old-style, legalised school? Mateja de Laat defines it aptly and poignantly from experience: 'This may be an outrageous statement for many, but in essence, sending children to school is like leaving them under the gun. Most of us do it in good faith. But also out of habit."
In Slovenia, 696 children are home educated in the current school year. Initiatives are being networked and expanded abroad.
I have written a lot about socialisation. In one of these texts I quoted the American psychologist Lawrence Shapiro:
"Some children seem to be socially adept from birth, while others struggle with various challenges of social acceptance......."
One of the main beliefs, perhaps even dogmas, of our society is that children need peers for healthy development. Canadian developmental psychologist Dr Gordon Neufeld argues otherwise. "Children need parents and other mature adults for healthy development, not peers."