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Michael, your claims of benefit are already visible in our own son after just a few months of microschooling at your own Socratic Experience school. I'm grateful to have found it and pleased to be an active participant in this new educational movement you're describing. It may be just my son who is attending at TSE, but our whole family is enrolled.

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Many thanks, Rick, for commenting. I'm very glad to hear that you see such improvements, both for your son as well as for the family. Great to have you all with us!

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I'm in! So glad to hear that research is being done on the effects of school on mental health. I got out just in time, but my son's case was complicated by his autism. A lot of progressive places were not equipped to handle special needs kids, so he was in a mental health crisis throughout his teens that still affects him today.

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I'm very sorry to hear that your son is still struggling. I'm focused on getting the negative impacts of conventional schooling out there so that hopefully fewer young people will suffer in the future.

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I'll say the "root cause of functional mental illnesses" is negligent parenting, so is really hard for schools to fix an epidemic of absent parents

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There are most likely biological, psychological, and social elements. Parents are certainly part of it, but there are also situations in which children with great parents are damaged by social factors outside the home, including in schools. So I am not claiming that one path will fix everything, but that in restricting the extent to which we can develop better subcultures via schools, we are both allowing ongoing damage while not pursuing a promising path for improvement.

Finally, at least to a limited extent, I believe a parent community focused on a healthier subculture can improve some parents. Again, perhaps this is a modest impact, and it certainly won't address the most egregious cases. But I have seen parents benefit from being part of a learning community focused on the well being of children, adolescents, and adults.

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