The School Survival Movement: Abolish Compulsory Schooling

[bigaloof]

Up above someone said that abolition of compulsory schooling was not as disruptive to society as abolition of slavery. I think that it'd be worse. The slaves, after they were freed, probably had a marketable skillset in whatever it is they used to do, without pay. When people come out of a modern factory school, all they have is just a piece of paper called a diploma, which means they are now officially employable, even though they don't have any practical skillsets. True learning of any sort seems to begin after you get your job. So if lots of people suddenly didn't go to school, they would run around trying to gain a practical skillset, which I'm sure is not easy and would take a good long time, even under the best of conditions. But people coming out of school are stupider than if they had never gone; as many other people have said, school infantilizes us. So gaining practical skills, realizing the need for them in the first place, then figuring out what you want to do in life, then figuring out what you might be good at, becomes that much harder immediately after the "Abolition of Compulsory Schooling" apocalypse. And then there's the obvious: not all of the population in the South consisted of slaves, but practically everyone goes to school.

And then there are the teachers and administrators. I don't know what to say about them at the moment, except that they would fight something like this tooth and nail, obviously. Can anyone say how many teachers and educational people there are, as a percentage of the population?

I'm not sure, but I'm inclined to think that excising school out of society in any meaningful way, even if not completely, would be so difficult to accomplish that it would be easier to break up our civilization entirely and just begin again.