Schools should focus on learning, not banning kids from having best friends

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Because American children in public schools boast scores in math, science, and language arts that are skyrocketing (just kidding), naturally administrators have taken on the far more important focus: social skills.

This last year, some American schools took a cue from our friends across the pond and decided exclusivity in friendship was a bad thing and that schools should ban kids from having best friends. This is not only a difficult, if not impossible, thing to enforce, but it’s hardly something about which schools should focus.

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