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I'm not sure kids learn much about the "real world" by being in school. In the real world you get to direct a lot of your time yourself, you aren't isolated to people of the same age, etc. I didn't really even have exposure to very many different kinds of people in school. In the advanced classes it was mostly middle class white christians. It wasn't until after I graduated and got a job at a used bookstore that I encountered different ways of thinking. The real world theory doesn't hold a lot of water.