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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much public support do you think there would be for public schools if they couldn't be used for child care?

The remarks is thread are ridiculously out of touch with reality. Regardless of whether child care is a primary function of public schools or not, it's absolutely viewed and used that way. If we end up with universal child care, you can bet they're not going to set anything up for schools days between ~9-3pm.[/quote]

I think the school is not childcare posters in this thread have been doing an admirable job demonstrating why people cringe when they say that. It's amazingly out of touch.[/quote]

Ugh. It’s not being out of touch. It’s being a realist and being able to distinguish purpose from collateral.  Childcare is not a purpose of schools. Education is a purpose of schools. To be sure, people get the benefit of childcare from schools, but that is not part of their mandate. They are not responsible for providing childcare. Totally understand that people relied on them for that and are now screwed, but that does not change what the schools are actually responsible for doing. In other words, yes, it totally makes sense and sucks that people don’t have a backup childcare option including k this crappy situation, but schools are not responsible for that situation because childcare is not part of their obligations. The inability to be able to understand this nuance is incredibly shocking to me.[/quote]

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