Could i make a case...?

Homework is unpaid labor. In high school, especially as a junior, I am of working age and legal to work. Attending high school is coercive, and I'm performing unpaid labor in the form of homework. The teachers are paid to do work, so shouldn't the students be too? Could I call the ACLU and actually make a convincing case to make unpaid homework illegal. This sounds stupid but could it work?

no. but I like how you think.
It would still be a fun project to pursue, and you might learn a little about the legal system in the process. Plus, any headway you did make would make you a hero in the eyes of your peers. go for it. just don't let any lack of progress on this one discourage you from always fighting the good fight

LOL no offense, but with all the crazy law suits going on now adays it honestly would not shock me if you could sue the school. I laugh because, other then a law suit, I use to think that myself in school ;)

Being of legal age to work does not automatically give you the right to be paid. You get a paycheck for performing a service, not for doing something required of you.

It doesn't sound like a very viable case. If you are of working age, which is usually 16, aren't you also legally allowed to drop out of high school? If you consider high school coercive, then drop out and work.

The main point is, though, that the teachers providing your education are performing a service to you, that you pay for through taxes. Doing homework is part of going to school. You benefit from doing homework, not your teachers.

To make your case work, you would have to show that your doing homework benefited someone other than yourself - that your doing homework was a service to your teachers. And since your homework only benefits you, I can't see how this case could logically, never mind legally, be made.

if you don't want to go to school and you're old enough to quit, then go ahead and quit.

Expect to say this a lot the rest of your life:

"Would you like fries with that?"

In the meantime, you are not as convincing as you think to educated folks. Stay in school another 10 years, then if you think it is so, do your best to help kids in school make the case at that time.

Sigh.... you're really reaching. If you don't like school so damned much, and if you are of legal age in your state to seek and gain employment, then freaking quit school and go to work.

Oh, and if you decide to do just that, good luck getting beyong flipping burgers or emptying trash bags at the bowling alley without a high school diploma or a college degree.

Damn.. its idiots like you that give the all those knee jerk, pencil necked, bleeding heart, tree huggers more and more ammunition to destroy the only real democracy left on this planet.