We need to define the skills as useful, in a way that the student can see the benefits of acquiring them , and provide some reasonable and effective means for attaining them that does not work punitively to prevent some other participation that is seen as equally beneficial . The following plausible response focusses on enhancing the public good. Writing competence contributes to educational achievement. The tests will serve to raise the standards and will, thus, serve the public good. They discriminate against such groups and block the means to success , thus encouraging both a sense of injustice and in extreme cases, even deviance .
Natural law is that law which seems to come from a higher source beyond the laws written by man.
To a very real extent we socially construct our environments. A caring, supportive environment produces different responses in the individuals that are part of the environment from one that is cold and punitive. By the ways in which we interact and agree to interact we socially construct the reality that we must then live with . We accuse it of being unjust, expect it to be repentant and to change to a position of greater justice. Teachers with issues of tests, parents with issues of hygiene, employers with issues of hard work are not likely to question the underlying and unstated assumptions of their demands.