It's always very cute how, if you mention that you'd like to abolish schools in a conversation, people won't stop and think beyond the one action.
Abolishing schools necessitates the abolition of other institutions and economic structures that force us to participate in them, so we should always think farther than the one thing.
I find it particularly funny that it's usually other teachers who can't extrapolate to other social changes when you say that we should abolish schools.
"But what about our job?"
Idk... maybe use that critical thinking you claim to teach and figure out some options for what we could do instead. I'll give some ideas, but I don't owe you an entire fucking policy proposal.
@whatanerd I once had to explain to a USian friend who has a PhD and works as an administrator at a US state uni that for the rest of the world, a "state university" means a public service subsidized by taxpayers, not a revenue stream that the state owns and controls.
For context, this was when covid first hit and the person in question was scrambling to figure out what to do about the income their department lost due to international students who paid the bulk of the tuition and housing income of the university being unable to travel.