High school vs. home school

The high school experience offers more than just getting that perfect GPA or getting ready for the rest of our young lives. Cliques, status quo, and the overall higharchy of those four years teaches us about the real world we can't learn whilst glued to a computer screen. Making friends is key in order to survive the wilderness of brick walls and tiled floors. This cannot be done alone. Then again, the distractions in solitude are limited, though lonelyness is sadly all too common. The social ladder is parallel to the real world. The jock. The "Barbie." The nerds. Everyone belongs somewhere, and these things things are easily found out in high school, especially when you wear the wrong shirt or last years shoes. Those four years teach rejection, failure, struggle. Not everything is peachy dandy in the world as portrayed in the home. Things are hard, things change. Rules are unfair and the chopping block is inevitable. It's better to get the heartbreak out of the way and learn to build up a semipermeable wall than realize the abrasive side of the outside world for the first time. Lovers. The idea that everyone craves... Until The Breakup. Sure it's the end of the world now, but it won't be as harsh later on if divorce ever rolls around. Stick with what works in the world miniaturized into a class room setting. We live and learn, wading through the days of adolescence until we reach the age we are forced to learn, whether we like it or not.