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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can only even have this argument because technology allows for "distance learning". A few decades ago, schools would just have closed, and then they wouldn't have been providing education OR child care. Before now, the child care and education were inseparable because kids had to be in person to do it. [/quote]

Right, and I think that's clouding the discussion. I have an incoming kindergartener who can't read. (We're working on it, he knows some sight words and is getting better at sounding them out, but he isn't a comfortable, fluent, independent reader.) I'm frankly quite skeptical that they ARE separable. I suspect the parents or whoever is doing the childcare will also be doing an equal amount of the education as the teacher, if not more. I suspect kids will not learn as much if they have working parents, which would indicate that education is not something you can deliver at arm's reach. These are just my suspicions. I'd like to be wrong.[/quote]

They are not separable for kids that age. Don't let the teachers posting here convince you otherwise. They are just trying to make themselves feel better and deny the reality that their physical absence is letting kids down.

If childcare and education are so separate, why do we have the saying that "parents are a child's first teacher" and why do teachers always talk about how important the role of the parent is in a kid's education??

People who truly love educating young children and feel called to do it know that education and childcare are intertwined. Unfortunately we have a not insignificant number of teachers who don't want to go in and teach because they feel like it would prevent them from being able to do other things they like, such as travel or hang out with friends or see extended family. They're afraid no one is going to want to hang out with them if they've been at school and they don't want to give that up. I'm not saying this is the case for every teacher who doesn't want to go in, but I have heard this kind of talk first hand from some of the young-ish, healthy teachers I know who want full DL. It stinks because a lot of us parents are willing to have school be that one thing we spend our "risk budget" on, while basically locking down in every other way, because we feel it's that important. But some teachers value their social lives more than their students. [/quote]

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