it's an extension of the secularized version of the originally theological argument. the agency of the child in school (to perform learning acts, not whether or not to attend school) makes our society feel morally justified in legislating that school is mandatory for children.
this is an exaggeration of what mandatory schooling already is. these controversies already exist but there is a certain degree of acceptability to them because we grant that the moral agency of the child (and their parents) mitigates some of the possible objections to this.
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but we also see that children have more limited agency than adults do and so we are constantly embroiled in political controversies about the contents of education and about parents trying to intervene and influence school boards and curricula.
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you know what we don't get a lot of controversy about? self-directed adult education. we see adults as having full moral agency and we literally don't care what they attempt to learn.
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