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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]The mandate is the education.
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Now that also doens't mean that it shouldn't 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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The mandate is not just education. Case point- 4 million meals being served this spring/ summer.   These boards were literally begging people to pick up meals because some locations were throwing out so much food.  Dont you think they could have cut some locations off that did not have high pick up rates?  No, because they must feed families.

Case in point 2- mcps cannot open without providing transportation to schools to children. Why hasn't everyone been screaming, "school is uber!" Bussing is not education. But School cannot open without it by law. Because theoretically school is an uber also. You can't have one without the other.

The school systems and government chose to prioritize what they want- they could do DL and childcate not for pay if they chose to. [/quote]

So what can students get from schools if they are not getting educated or receiving educational services there? Nothing.

Can students get educational services from schools if they don't participate in the other ancillary services? Yes. You don't have to use the bus, or the meals, or anything else.

The mandate is the education. Sorry, that's just the way it is. I encourage you to work on changing it.  [/quote]

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