The state REQUIRES attendance at public schools (unless they are homeschooled). The state will also step in and remove children from a home where physical abuse is found.
But they have no duty to protect minors?
That is some garbage.
They make up the law as they go.
Yup that is the pretzel hypocritical legal framework we are currently living under.
Justice would demand at least the laws be consistent one way or the other.