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The education system is essentially a mass child-minding service, a disciplinary institution, or "incarceral habitus" to coin a sociological term - aka, a prison. Its function is less to educate, than to accommodate children to ensure workers are maximally available as labour.
This is where the pressure arises, to "liberate" children from the domestic habitus, regardless of risk, in order to reintegrate control over labour and reassert the claim that only work matters. If too many realise they have other options, and haven't we witnessed...
...an upsurge of inventiveness and dare I say, play, among adults suddenly allowed the freedom to reconsider how they spend their time, other than immersed in employment, at the command of corporations, their every moment "managed" for ends not entirely of their own choosing?
