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Assuming that you can keep a thousand poorly-supervised children focused on the task . . .
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If they want to eat, they'll get focused. If they don't get focused, then we're going to see some attrition. We're talking TL2 here, not 21st century suburban helicopter parents. Iron Age civilization neither had the luxury nor the inclination to coddle children, and with that ratio, they'd be no more poorly supervised than in their homeland.
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Scribes, etc. wouldn't be that common in a typical city.
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... pardon? You're joking, surely? Scribes/clerks/recordkeepers have been a significant element in just about every city, in every culture, from the point from which writing was invented on forward.
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What virtually any suburban or semi-urban low tech person would have is a greater familiarity with animal handling and gardening.
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I don't disagree. Would you mind quoting the bit from the OP that said "suburban or semi-urban" instead of "doomed TL2 city"?