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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another example of school is not childcare so you can work. [/quote]

No, but for how long has school been compulsory for K age and above? Our society has not been set up for a parent to be at home full time with school age kids for any time in recent memory. I never worked out our budget to include a full time nanny for school age children and we spaced our kids to never have two in daycare at the same time. Even if we shifted what we used to pay for one in daycare, it would never cover the cost of full time care for two kids now.

I really hate the argument of school not being childcare. Of course it isn’t. But there are pretty much zero options for any childcare for school age kids at this point in time, even if people want to pay for it. [/quote]

This argument is ridiculous.  Lots of people do careful family planning and part of that planning is knowing when kids start compulsory schooling.  Our taxes pay into school so there is an expectation kids will be in school during the day.  Stop telling people to parent or that school isn't childcare, etc.  And do you want a huge chunk of the workforce to just quit to stay home with their children?  You don't think that would have a huge effect on the economy?   [/quote]

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