This pandemic shows true nature of so many things.

I especially like how it shown that main purpose of schools is not the education but preventing kids from being a burden for their parents.

My experience with High School was that it was a daycare center with a focus on forcing conformity. I learned nearly nothing in the actual school aside from maybe a bit of math I could have picked up through online classes. I think it was mostly a taste of what it would feel like to be in prison.

English was mostly trying to teach the illiterate kids how to read 10 years too late while everyone else tried not to die of boredom. History was about how we won WWII with maybe a little nationalism mixed in. PE was okay. Physics was barely recognizable as such. Math was mostly rote learning. Biology was similar.

That is exactly what is going on. The idea of having to pay for treatment and care is driving this, not any humanitarian or security consideration.

None of them of course will have healthcare coverage...

Perhaps pedantic, but these were inmates in jail, not prison. (at least in the US criminal justice system, the difference refers to whether or not they have been convicted and are subject to long-term confinement)