California law repealing criminal penalties for parents of chronically truant kids took effect yesterday. Kamala Harris was, of course, a big fan of this when she was San Francisco County DA.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB461
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/california-harris-truancy-00591137
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I understand why people approve of violent coercive social systems -- they benefit from them! But to deny the obvious fact that violence is required to keep the system working is so transparently self-delusion I'd think they'd be embarrassed to expose themselves.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Who the heck said a single word about violence? "It is required" does not in any way imply "at gunpoint." This law is not in any way enforced at gunpoint in any country I know of. Even here in America with all its *numerous* problems with violence it is not. The most violent thing I know of is if a parent continues to refuse to do basic required things for their child, the child may be separated. (This I will qualify as violence in its own way, but the safety of the child does matter too. It is complicated and will not fit character limits.) That is done in a courtroom, not at gunpoint. If your country uses guns to enforce this, then I will agree that that is not ok. Anyone who ever points a gun at a child is inherently broken.
If you oppose compulsory K12 schooling, are there any arguments in favor of it that you take seriously enough to think they're worth refuting? If you support it, what arguments in its favor convince you? I'm writing against it and need additional respectable opposition to argue against.
I'm asking in good faith and looking for citations rather than debates, so boosts appreciated.
#Education #K12 #Abolition #PoliceAbolition #Deschooling #CompulsorySchooling #Anarchism #Anarchy #Compulsion
Adrian Riskin 