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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My opinion... not illegal, but certainly more regulated.

I think the point of regular school is that everyone should have more than one authority figure. Kids should be allowed to learn to think critically about their parents and their parents' beliefs and of course vice versa. It's not good for there to be too much power/influence concentrated in either the private sphere or the state. (Not a new idea... Rawls argues this in Theory of Justice.)[/quote]

That's not the "point" of regular school.[/quote]

Well, school has many functions doesn't it? Of course part of it is education -- no democracy without an education citizenry. But it also has a social function. If parents are neglecting or abusing their children, the school system provides another environment for observation in which the state can intervene. In the case that everyone's discussing here, it would have been very beneficial to the children for all kinds of reasons if they had been attending school. They probably would have gotten out of that hell much faster.

Schools have many, many problems. But the benefit of having an institutionalized space in which other adults can look out for our kids is real. Just as it would be a disservice to children to take them away from their families and put them only in an institutional space, I believe it's a disservice to them to keep them only in the home under the sole authority of their parents (past a certain age).

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