(Editor's note: This is a response to the Nov. 18 editorial "Military Recruitment in High School.")
Yes, high school students (except when they turn 18?) are considered (as far as I know) by the law to be minors. This can be seen in several ways. However, in many other, perhaps more important ways, our society already treats them as "majors!"
Where is the requirement, then, that their parents support them when they graduate? No, it is just a societal expectation (college?). So those minors are in fact majors in law even though not in social expectation. Because of our social expectation, we cannot see it; it is invisible before our eyes. So in fact if their life is in their hands, they are majors! Otherwise they are minors in the hands of "the republic, the church, and Jesus!" But in law they are not the children of their parents, except to say the state is not liable for what they get from them, or if those parents are poorer, for purposes of redistribution among societal groups, not individuals. That is except for four brief years that disappear. Just like these, four years that disappear and often disappoint!
