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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course school is childcare. Suggesting otherwise is ridiculous.
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No. School serves as childcare for a lot of families (including mine, back when my kids needed supervision), but that is a lucky accident. It happens to be the case that for most kids, education works better when kids are in school away from home, being educated by professionals, without the parents around. That frees parents to do whatever they want with their time during school hours.

But there are times when school can't safely open, because of power outages or snowstorms or pandemics. And in those cases, the school system is not obligated to figure out your childcare for you.

If your kid attends, say, therapy once a week, and the therapist says you should leave for the duration so you usually run errands or get a pedicure, that doesn't mean the therapist has to find you a sitter on weeks when there's no therapy. Having someone else supervise your kid for that hour is a thing that happens because of therapy, not the purpose of therapy. [/quote]

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