>>788990>They shouldn't be regarded as their parents or another adult.They’re not. But they’re regarded as pets or alter egos of their parents
Historically, children were punished for their parents crimes.
>It rather depends on the will of parents of the kid, the existence of free public schooling. Parents have some opportunity to choose whether their child gets an education or not. If a jurisdiction has laws about schooling and provides the opportunity to enforce them (free public schooling), then it should exist out there.Compulsory law for schooling is enforced by the state.
And you isn’t g the word “should” here makes me leery.
Maybe work should be enforced for adults just the same way school is enforced for kids
Also, schooling is often more or less some shallow socialization experience that could be finished in a fraction of the time.
Labor is far more consequential for society than schools. It was labor that built society.
School came more or less as corollary to help make potential workers more efficient.
Nowadays, people treat school as some mandatory social labor, with willful disregard for how the workers world operates