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US schools have way too much authority over children. A student can goto a party on Saturday night and get a ticket for MIP or some other infraction and then face punishment at school in addition to the fine. US schools are quasi authoritarian regimes for teenagers. I don’t believe that is right at all.

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> A student can goto a party on Saturday night and get a ticket for MIP or some other infraction and then face punishment at school in addition to the fine.

I'm not saying this doesn't happen, but I am saying that this has never happened to me or anyone I know.

It's one of those things they threaten kids with and could plausibly try and do but never actually take all the way because it'd get fought and perhaps reigned in if the did.

I mostly agree with you. But the same is true with your employer in the US. You do something stupid outside of work like an OUI and there will likely be consequences with employment - either current or future. Not terrible to internalize that early when the consequences are relatively forgettable.

You are not required by law to subject yourself to your employer, or to any employer.

Unfortunately, that doesn't have any practical relevance. Structural coercion is still coercion.

You are generalizing way too hard to white collar employment.

Plenty of blue collar jobs where you could get fired or couldn't get hired because of behavior outside work like an OUI. Anything requiring a CDL, security, some retail to name a few.

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