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I truly think people who say “school isn’t childcare” are mostly just contrarians. I’ve only heard a couple (childless) teachers say this in real life. I’m a teacher and school is my childcare. I have to get camps 2 weeks during the summers and on workdays.[/quote]

I'm a parent who works full time, and I say this. Do I use school in place of childcare? Of course! But that's because a typical school day falls when I have work. I don't think I'm entitled to have my public school system step up year round even though unlike teachers, my job is year round. I don't expect school to provide a place for my kids when they're sick even if I have something I need to do at the office. And I don't pull my kid out of school because I want to go on vacation at a particular time. [/quote]

Thanks, Trumper. Go back to you’re hole. Thankfully progressives still run the show and give a F about social safety net and feminism. [/quote]

It's weird how people think calling attention to what a stopgap it is to use school as childcare  is reactionary. The pandemic has shown how little a social safety net there is, and rather than decide we need to do something about childcare and mental health and all the other problems thrown into relief over the past two years, there are a whole lotta white women voting for Youngkin and hoping things can go back to the way they were. It worked for them, so it's gotta be OK, amirite?

SUPER feminist of you to demand that teachers (most of whom are women) step up and do what you want.[/quote]

APS is actually created the stopgap issue by adding midweek instructional days. This simply creates a burden for working parents. No one else has mentioned all year schooling or making schools take care of sick kids. That's completely irrelevant and, frankly, idiotic. 
 The point of this thread is not to ask teachers to "step up" and do more, it's imploring APS to maintain a more consistent schedule. I don't see why we can't support both families and teachers.

And for what it's worth, I would have walked over broken glass to vote for McAuliffe. Youngkin will be bad news for education, but he made a big deal out of open schools and lots of parents correlate open schools to better mental health for their children (for better or worse). I supposed that's a different thread.

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Yup, a completely different thread. It's so frustrating how many people took what he was saying on the surface and voted as a reaction to the past 2 years (aka the pandemic) rather than take a glimpse at his real thoughts and positions on public schools.  He's going to do his best to destroy them- I'm hoping that the control we have locally over APS will help us in the long run. But fewer instructional days vs more hours will be the least of many school systems issues if Youngkin acts on his promises to funnel $$$ into charter schools.[/quote]

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