Dennis, people USED to like other people of all ages. It's only the age-segregated school system of the last 100 years that made it otherwise. Now people are dumb enough to think that "you need friends your own age" and they feel sorry for a fifteen-year-old whose only friends are 18 and 11 years of age. In the real world, that kid has two good friends. In the artificial world of a society who thinks all 15's need other 15's, that kid has no friends.
What a radical change this means for our society. You get up and barely see your parents. You get on the bus and for the rest of the day your only contacts are same-age peers. You don't relate to your teacher because she's not a parent, she's not a peer, she's been taught not to relate to you, you can't confide in her, the day is carefully structured to keep you away from teacher and not to allow a moment of private time when you might be tempted to ask her a question about bullies or request guidance on a sensitive issue. You avoid her and she avoids you. There are no other non-same-people in your day. Until you arrive home at six o'clock (you're kept on campus due to the fact that mom has a full-time job) you see no one but people who are no more than 12 months in age away from you.
Six-year-olds raising six-year-olds. Twelve-year-olds raising twelve-year-olds, and serve as their only mentors and guidance counselors. Worse, you learn your moral code from them. You learn about sex from them. You learn that picking on some weaker kid is a bonding experience for you and your two best buds.
More than any other reason, it's this same-age isolation that spurs me to oppose the public school and urge parents to homeschool, even if that means mom must quit her job.
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