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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a single mom. 
School is not child care. 
I don’t have the answers. But school is not child care. [/quote]

It's not pejorative, it's factual.  They're taking care of children who are not old enough to take care of themselves.  It's the definition of childcare.  [/quote]

NP. If a kid is admitted to a hospital for something, if a kid is at someone else’s house for a play date, if a kid is at karate class, all of those things provide oversight of your child for specified purposes but are not childcare. It’s the same concept with schools. They are not your employees. They are not there to watch your kids. They are there to educate your children. Your childcare problems are none of their concern. [/quote]

The examples you give are all private entities. They do not have to be providing services. There aren't legal mandates. Public education isn't like this. Parents reasonably rely on legally mandated education for childcare and to pretend otherwise is disassembling. [/quote]
Public schools have no mandate to provide childcare. Just an education. For people to argue that the education isn't the same is silly. Is going to the bank the same? Is going to the grocery store? Is anything? Things are not going to be the same until this is over.[/quote]

I mean, yeah, going to the bank and grocery store are basically the same. We just have to wear masks. Distance learning for a 5 year old is far more fundamentally different and arguably not the same service.

I'm not even arguing that public schools should open. I don't think they should around here. But I think the hand waving about how education can be provided just as well from a distance, and parents are only complaining because they need day care, is sheer denial. Let's at least acknowledge how crappy this is and how much kids are missing out on.[/quote]

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