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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher myself: this whole "school is not childcare" thing is a bunch of BS. Alongside the various education functions (creating citizens, workforce training, etc.), one is publicly-funded childcare. It's not an either/or proposition, and we need to stop pretending otherwise.

It's like we're all pretending that we didn't learn about the multiple functions which education serves. This literally should have been in your intro classes.[/quote]

You mean they even teach that in teacher's school and yet so many teachers are raving mad about being equated with childcare? Wow. [/quote]

Teacher's school? You mean university? And no, this teacher is full of shit. Never heard of a program that says this, unless your major is early childhood education or the like.

However what's not full of shit in the remark is public education does also serve as childcare, even if that IS NOT the primary function. [/quote]

Wait, so you DIDN'T have a class which went over the social functions of education? That seems like a glaring omission. How are you supposed to choose your teaching philosophy without exposure to that?[/quote]

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