Childhood is a recent invention. If it wasn’t for societies expectations for school and child labor laws, it would not exist.
Get rid of school requirements and the child labor laws will quickly follow. Then childhood goes poof.
Yes, I read the article. I stand by my point.
School as it is right now is a remnant of the effort to educate children into competent factory workers or management. We’ve grown to accept that the 40 hour week starting when you’re 4 or 5 years old is a prerequisite to a successful career and that the point of the whole system is to give kids a fighting chance in the economy as it will exist 20 years after they start that journey. We implicitly assume that is the best way to go about life and we’ve structured society around it.
I question whether it’s still worth it for today’s kids. Kids who are destined to excel academically probably will. Forcing the rest to go through the motions at the cost of their childhood is not the best way to treat humans in my opinion.
Clent@lemmy.world 2 months ago
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s a non sequitur. How would child labor laws disappearing follow from adjusting school such that it serves the humans it purports to?
Keep in mind I never said ban school. A sibling comment to yours rightly made the point that there are some educational basics required to function in society and I agree. Having children and young adults spend some amount of time with that is a good thing. It’s just too much of a daycare, a fulltime job simulator and a standardised test score generator as it stands.
Clent@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Child labor laws are already being rolled back by republicans. You failed to acknowledge the recent creation of childhood. Claiming these are non sequiturs indicates a lack of knowledge of history and current political movements; a sophomoric perspective that you’re projected on to me.
Based on your response, I expect you to continue to dismiss what I say rather than taking the time to look at your internal logic and attempt to compensate for your blind spots.
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Talk about sophomoric some more.
Rolder@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Personal opinion is that some level of education is required to fully function in modern society. The basics like math, language, history, etc. Plus school offers a good way for kids to socialize with others their age which is important.
Now on the other hand, the current format of waking kids up at 8AM, loading them with homework, forcing them to take standardized tests… that all is a bit much.