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   Queer Satanic (queersatanic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:34:46 JST Queer Satanic

   youth liberation includes #SchoolAbolition, but ridding the world of public schools does not in itself advance the cause of #YouthLiberation

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     Queer Satanic (queersatanic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:34:45 JST Queer Satanic

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     no longer compelling children to spend hours each day sitting in classrooms where they are essentially held hostage, constantly surveilled, and restricted in their autonomy including bodily autonomy is a worthy goal; but the modern anti-school / homeschooling movement is perfectly fine with all of the same abuses and more so long as it's done by parents — in fact, removing another check on "parental rights" (i.e. the right of parents to utterly dominate their children) is a feature not a bug of the attack on #publicSchools.

     the reinforcement of wealth inequality where the burden of caring for children is further atomized and the poorest families with the least resources suffer most is a feature not a bug of the attack on public schools.

     states like Iowa pushing for the return of #childLabor; states like Florida pushing teachers out to be replaced by cops and military veterans as overseers; the ubiquity of undocumented immigrant child labor in agriculture, slaughter houses, and automobile plants as a model for poor children more generally — all these are features not bugs of the attack on public schools

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     Queer Satanic (queersatanic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:34:45 JST Queer Satanic

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     conservatives and reactionaries love to advocate on behalf of children b/c they see children as unpersons who can be ignored completely when they self-advocate and whose will ought to be subordinated to their adult owners; this is the main part of the freak out about "#criticalRaceTheory", "#wokeism", and all the #queerphobia targeting public education and educators.

     right-wing adults believe they are entitled to their own children thinking and acting as those adults say the children should think and believe, and b/c the right engages in extreme indoctrination and coercion to achieve this, they also believe that any divergence of obedience must be due to some nefarious outside influence rather than the children themselves having agency or original desires.

     these adults are looking to eradicate all competing forms of ideas children might be exposed to and to beat and even torture children that fail to comply e.g. "#conversionTherapy"

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     Queer Satanic (queersatanic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:34:45 JST Queer Satanic

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     again: youth liberation is a worthy goal, and the end of public schools as they exist today is a part of that.

     but absent many other forms of abolitionism, including #familyAbolition, the cause of youth liberation is not actually being advanced by removing from children another check on the tyranny of their own households

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     Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:35:14 JST Masonic Cowgirl

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     @QueerSatanic I think that in the absence of the elimination of all hierarchies, at least having a balance between different ones that have different centers of power is best, for every kid who finds a respite from their terrible family in their friends at school, there's another kid who finds a respite from their terrible school in their family

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:38:47 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @julieofthespirits @QueerSatanic I was psychologically and to some degree physically abused by my mother, and she only had so much access to me because we homeschooled, but all the same, I'm extremely grateful I was homeschooled. I would not have the awesome (imo) talents and hobbies I do if I hadn't been, and moreover, I don't think I would've had the ability to deal with the whole school...thing as opposed to autodidactic self study based on common core and college entrance requirements and such. That's just the way my neurodivergence is wired