Speaking of kids and schools...

Population Control

Inspired by Shcool Selection and other stories like that. I like the concept of organized terminating of school kids, but I don't like the way it's forced and even when victims accept their fate, it's still a punishment for them not meeting some criteria. So here's my idea how to fix that.
In the setting I imagine population control is practiced to, well, control the overpopulation. But preventing people from having children is considered to not be humane. So is terminating people by force as in School Selection setting. Instead every like year of ever semester people from the Population Control Cometee (or whatever the institution is called) come to schools to give a little lection on why you should go and have yourself terminated (amount of resourses on Earth is limited -> the less the population, the more resourses for each person -> by terminating yourself you make those who remain alive happier -> it is an act of charity). The lection is more of formality though since it's something everyone knows anyway (especially since it's repeated every year/semester, and even first-graders must have already heard it all from elder siblings, parents, the sosciety in general), they same way if somebody came to your school (that is, imagine you're still in a school) and gave a lection on how you would do a good deed if you donated your blood - it's not like it isn't something you don't know already, however it can be what drives you to actually go and donate blood this time. So the children in this world feel the same about having themselves terminated. They know it is a good deed and nothing prevents them to do it on any random day when they feel like it, and if they learned someone close to them (classmate, friend, boy/girlfriend, sibling) had themselves terminated on such a random day, they won't see anything special in it, but usually it's just something not on their mind and not something they would bother doing (like if on a random day they remember of a possibility to have themselves terminated for the greater good, they might think 'oh, but I already have a plan for today, so maybe tomorrow' and by tomorrow they would forget it). But while it is a bother, it is not any more so than a blood donation for a person from our world, and nothing more than a bother, that is, nothing to be feared. Death is so casual one would be more interested in whether talk than the news that their child or sibling had themselves terminated (except for just knowing this fact so that they know the child or sibling in question didn't get lost or kidnapped or something actually bad). No concept of funeral or any other parting ceremony exist. They just take a not to wait the dead home anymore and that's all.
And so, the lections serve not to tell them they can do such a good deed, which they already know, but to remind them and create a good occasion for it. Then after the lection they get all the volunteers to the provisional termination point set up in the gym and terminate the children in an organized and casual manner. Perhaps the children get to choose among some standard termination methods like hanging and beheading. The attitude again is as with blood donation, they know they do a good deed and lose nothing doing so (as they don't see death as any kind of loss), the only reason not everyone is doing it is because most just don't feel like bothering with it. You know the picture by Juan Gotoh with boys standing in line for beheading, behaving totally casual and cheerful? Well, something like that.
Ah, one more thing. The reason the whole thing involves school children is because younger children are considered too young to be able to decide to end their life, while adults are considered contributing members of sosciety. Basically while you're at school you should make a choise of whether you want to contribute to sosciety by having yourself terminated or by completing your education and getting a job. Though I guess it would be legal for an adult to have themselves terminated, it would be considered an act not befitting an adult, you can even say it would be considered a childish act.
The age restriction might be narrower than just "school children", maybe it's just primary scoolers, or maybe just middle schoolers (or maybe just high scoolers, but I personally would prefer younger kids) with all the reasoning staying the same.
How much the whole this is sexualised I would leave for whoever might take this idea to decide. If I was writing it though, let me think... I would probably make them all strip, not separate boys from girls, and probably have them be casual about that and even about some skinship, but I would be carefull with including actual sex, making sure I can do it in a way that emphasizes casualness rather than ruin it, and if I can't do it in such a way, I would rather not have sex in the story at all.
What else... the bodies, right? If they don't have funerals or anything, where do the bodies go? I think they either throw them into garbage, or they take it to the nearest meat-processing plant. Anyway, among the charachters, nobody cares about it in any meaningfull way.