Should the compulsory education laws be abolished?

-The first compulsory school attendance law was passed in Massachusetts in 1852 and by 1918 every state in the Union had such a law. Yet the fact is that these laws have merely increased the amount of time children spend in school, not the amount of learning or knowledge they acquire.



These laws not only violate the parents unalienable right to determine how their children are to be educated, but they violate the 13th Amendment which prohibits involuntary servitude. No child should be forced to serve the interests of the education establishment. No child should be forced to undergo brain washing and indoctrination by a self serving monopoly of facilitators and change agents.



What do you think about the compulsory school attendance laws? Do you think we should keep them or get rid of them? Do you think they violate the 13th Amendment?They should be modified. Our schools are an abject failure by any measure but it gives the emotionally driven types something to hold onto.No, they do not violate the 13th Amendment because being in school in no way equates to servitude.



Also, your argument is just the same far right garbage that precedes a call for eliminating public education and child labor laws. We already know exactly where you're going with this and no - I do not agree that 9 and 10 year old children should be working in factories for $1.75 an hour instead of going to school. I will not agree with people like you who want to turn this country into a third world nation because labor costs are rising in China.
Of course it shouldn't be abolished. The last thing America needs is more uneducated idiots walking around.
I think you have a right to be illiterate, uneducated and unemployable.
Yes, high school is overrated.