And guess what happened in the FIRST EPISODE. The "students" skipped fucking school and became friends with each other by BONDING over their common interests." It's so funny that you were so close to getting the point only to completely miss it completely because you stubbornly insist the show is wrong and you are right. Your claim the school was unnecessary for their friendship is completely wrong - if it wasn't for the school, they would never have met each other, and bringing the different races together was one of the explicit goals of the school. Finally, just because they didn't need the instruction from the school to form a friendship doesn't mean what the school taught didn't help them. Narrative aside, realistically it would. One interesting point is it's been found that teaching social skills doesn't just help students in relationships, they perform better academically as well.



In conclusion, you're an insufferable bitch who whines about everything that doesn't conform to their exceptions, and you need to get over it

You have no clue what you are talking about. While I've never heard of the exact term "school of friendship", many schools have special programs that focus on teaching social skills, which is exactly what the school of friendship does. As a matter of fact, for a period of time I did go to such a school, but my personal life is none of your business, it's just ironic that your assumptions were wrong from the get go. If you bothered to do research for a change instead of sticking to your ignorant smugness you would be able to find examples of some. Here is some specific curricula: k12engagement.unl.edu/strategy… It's all beside the point though as it's not supposed to be mimicking life, it's expanding on the core themes of the show. The idea of the alternative schooling system was probably inspired by Montessori schools, also a real thing.Your notion that social skills cannot be taught in a classroom is not supported by science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1… Note that this review was done back in the 70s. The reason it hasn't been done more is not because it's not effective or because it's a revolutionary idea, but because people have been slow to realize the importance of it. You're also completely missing the point of the school if you think it's reducing teaching friendship to learning from a book, that's a strawman characterization if I ever saw one. The whole point of the Season 8 opener was moving away from strictly book based learning and focusing on the organic friendship that formed among the student six. They did not do away with bonding over common interests, they are just supplementing it with taught social skills. You're only finding problems with it because you're looking for problems.