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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