There seems to be huge resentment on this site over the fact that kids being in school allows one of parents to get employment. No, it really does not mean the babysitting is the only or primary function and it is definitely not something bad.

And if quarantine changed anything, it is that I value school more then before. And I am not one of those people desperate to somehow making remote school and work function, thankfully we had no stressful deadlines during that time. But the kids still missed it and still learned better when in school then home alone.

In 2020 specifically quite a lot of schooling has happened with the kids being quarantined at home. It's been quite messy, especially at the margins, but it provides a sort of natural experiment on what's actually going on.

Well it's not a bad thing. It's just a fact that working parents need somebody to handle their kids for about 10 hours a day.

Yeah, all I'm saying is that pretending school is a purely education institution is awkward at best.

It's better if school policy can be discussed admitting it has two main purposes.