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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the point is that childcare is not the primary purpose of school, if it were it would be open year round like daycare.[/quote]

Yes, but it is A purpose of school. To say it's not puts an unfair amount of burden on working parents. [/quote]

Closing schools definitely has a major impact on US families -- to the point where it can make it hard for families to stay intact and survive -- but that doesn't mean it is a mandate of the schools. Not of how they are designed. The mandate is the education.

Now that also doens't mean that it [b]shouldn't[/b] be part of tha mandate -- it just isn't. SO, for example, if you have a kid who leaves formal schooling because you are going to homeschool or unschool, or if the child is over 16 and decides not to go, you can't just drop those kids off at school on the days you need to work. They are either an enrolled student or not, and if enrolled, ithey have to be in classes.a

Some countries have universal daycare provisions, or state-sponsered childcare availability. We don't. Maybe we should. But that's not the same question.
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