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Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by Consultant32452 on Friday March 30, 2018 @10:53AM (#16716563)
It's not just economy of scale for babysitting, though that is a big component. In fact, the timing of compulsory education being enacted into law coincides with men coming back from the world wars and the creation of child labor laws, denying children the right to work so their parents could have better jobs. I'm not here advocating putting kids back in the factories, just pointing out the history.

In addition to that, I think it's clear that there's two curriculums at school: a spoken one and an unspoken one. The spoken curriculum is math, science, reading, etc. The unspoken curriculum is mass social indoctrination around conformity, complacency, and willingness to do boring work with minimal reward for long periods of time. Essentially, to psychologically prepare children for the realities of work life.

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Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by InitialLastName on Friday March 30, 2018 @11:41AM (#16717011)
> denying children the right to work so their parents could have better jobs.

This is basically what I'm saying; educational requirements are an easy way to track the workforce. At the end of the wars, the labor market contracted hugely (as those soldiering jobs went away), so our society cut the least valuable workers out of the workforce. That it had humanitarian justifications, in that those workers also had the least personal agency and influence over their working conditions, is almost coincidental.

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Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by scythe on Friday March 30, 2018 @10:45PM (#16721385)
>In fact, the timing of compulsory education being enacted into law coincides with men coming back from the world wars and the creation of child labor laws, denying children the right to work so their parents could have better jobs.

Compulsory education in the US started in 1852 in Massachusetts and ended in 1918 in Mississippi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education#United_St...

The first modern compulsory education was enacted in Prussia in 1763.

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Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by machinehermit on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:28AM (#16723012)
I use to think this way but as I got older I realized it was just a projection of how bad I was with girls in school.

One boy's mass social indoctrination is another boy's ultimate fuck party.

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