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By this logic isn't school just slavery?
you aren't strictly forced to go to school, it's your parents who will suffer the consequences for you not going, but yes forcing kids to go to school when they clearly don't want to is an extremely shitty thing and leads to lots of issues.
I have heard this very intelligently argued more than once over the last 30 years. I’m not gonna get into the arguments, because they are all actually kind of different and all very complicated.
Suffice it to say, I don’t really think so. Because I don’t, personally, view school as “work” or “labor”. Nobody would get paid to go to school as an occupation— other than (post)doctoral students, I suppose. That’s not really the same thing, working off of grants.
And, in a huge portion of cases, people actually pay a premium to go to school.
But if you’re trying to ask if I think any compulsory activity for children, or anyone else, is tantamount about slavery, no I don’t. Obviously, it’s a very nuanced subject.
Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.