What does "work with" mean in this context? ...yes. All feebleminded. No school. The dragged children sometimes kick and scream and often disrupt class.

They have school security to handle disruptive children. If the children have to either earn money or do household work in order for the family to have enough food, the social workers will work with their parents to try to figure out something better.

Having all feebleminded children must be exhausting and very hard! Would they like to not have any more children and get a big sum of money to help with the existing ones.

The ones who are constantly having security interactions do not learn much.

The "make the children work" solution is doing just fine.

...maybe.

It's not really about whether they learn things, it's about establishing that children go to school.

No, it has stopped working, because now the law is that their children will go to school. They will need a new solution, or they will starve when their children are obliged to go to school even though they haven't come up with a new one.

The money would let them get some of these nice computers with games that their feebleminded children would like! And a new house with indoor plumbing and a caretaker to help with the children so they could get some time off!

Well what's their idea then, if they're going to kidnap the children?

And they get this money if they go how long without having children?

Are the parents working? Do they not earn enough money? Why?

They get this money if they agree to go to the clinic where the doctors will arrange that they not have more children.

They do not earn enough money because they are poor and things keep breaking and whatnot.

...that sounds incredibly ominous.

Social workers will line them up better jobs building things with the Amentans, and give them payments to help with the transition, and take their kids off to school.

It doesn't hurt, has a very short recovery time, and doesn't affect anything else.

They don't want to work for Amentans.

What if they don't trust them on that, what then.

The social workers take their kids to school anyway.

They could have friends accompany them to the clinic and ask questions and things?

Their friends are all working.

They could ask the doctors to come here and answer questions, the doctors would probably be happy to explain. 

What if they aren't sure the doctors are honest?

...what are they worried the doctors might do instead?

Leave stuff in their bodies! Take stuff out! Make them blind or impotent or incontinent or dizzy or something!

Well, the doctors are very well trained and won't do any of those things, just help them not keep having feebleminded children they can't support.

(Some of the children are suspiciously alert through this conversation.)

They think they do not trust the social workers on that or the doctors either since they are weird aliens.

Okay! That's fine, but in that case they'll take the children to school in case any of them can learn things in a better environment.

Nope, they are too feebleminded. They would probably get lost on the way home or eat an alien electronic and die.

The social workers will accompany them and keep them away from alien electronics.

The parents think they should not do that.

The social workers are going to do it anyway.

Well, the parents can't really stop them since there are security greys.

Aitim gets a report on all of this, sends back requests for more information, revises plans for outlawing child labor elsewhere, approves a pilot school for disabled children in a region which has pretty good attendance.

Disabled children go to it.

Hala goes to visit Himlin, Canada and visit her uncles.