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    Anonymous wrote:
    School is, of course, childcare, and our entire economy is built around that assumption. I have no idea why DCUM is obsessed with this fiction.

EXACTLY. Of course [b]one of the functions that school serves is to take care of children[/b]. I, too, think DCUM is[b] weirdly obsessed[/b] with thinking this isn't the case and there is something wrong with a parent who took a job assuming their kids would be in school during certain hours M-F.
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Um, no.

People who say "school is not childcare" are trying to remind parents that teachers are not simply glorified childcare providers who they can look down their nose at. They are licensed professionals who work very hard to develop lessons for their students, provide learning, and support students socially and emotionally. Yes, other parents depend on the school day as a place where their children are cared for during the day. But it is not a "weird obsession" to remind certain uppity DCUMers that teachers are highly trained professionals and not their nannies.
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What? Are you new to DCUM? This is my comment and I fully respect teachers as licensed professionals. 
DCUM people who say school is not childcare are not denigrating teachers (unfortunately, we have a lot of people who do that on DCUM also, and there may be some overlap). They do it to say that schools should not open in the fall and who cares if that means parents can't work. Parents shouldn't be depending on schools to take care of their children because, according to them, "school is not childcare" and so parents should have foresaw the pandemic closing schools and have a backup plan.[/quote]

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