How High School Fosters Suicide

“Scholars at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center have offered a novel contributing factor to teen suicide: high school.… We group children into large schools primarily for bureaucratic convenience. But teens do better when they spend more time with adults, who are civilized -- and less time interacting in cultures created by peers, who aren't yet.” And, that “Lord of the Flies” scenario so common to public schools is one of the primary reasons I chose to homeschool.