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Muscles posted...

There are other reasons than education for kids to be in school or other programs with kids. They won't learn how to properly socialize or make emotional connections, no amount of intelligence can teach you that. Look how bad some people are that did have enough opportunity to socialize and still turned out to be creeps, weirdos, or just completely terrible at socializing, there is a good chance he would turn into a recluse and/or weirdo.

...because they're not going to able to learn those things with people far below their level. He's very likely two to three standard intelligence deviations above most classmates his own age. If put into an environment like that, he's LESS likely to be able to socialize because he's almost certainly on a much higher intellectual level. He would either need to be in classes with people roughly equal to him, or with people who are older than him. If anything, trying to put him in with average children will make him less able to socialize. A one-size-fits all approach only works for average people. It hurts people above and below that level.

More importantly, even if you somehow felt that he needs to interact with people his own age, school is perhaps the worst place to do that because most of the average school day involves kids sitting around and being lectured to. He's not going to be learning there. And by holding him back, you're also ruining his education and almost certainly ensuring that he'll operate at a far lower level in society than he's capable of.

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