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Re:'Children of Men' is happening by ketzo on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:39PM (#30735789)
If you make something compulsory, a whole system springs up around meeting that compulsion.

If the government mandates kindergarten attendance, well, now it's much more important to put funding for kindergartens in your next bill.

If every parent of a three-year-old has to think about finding a kindergarten, that's a lot more political clout behind getting better kindergartens.

And so on and so forth.

Re:'Children of Men' is happening by pjerem on Saturday March 19, 2022 @03:03PM (#30736671)
I don’t think this will change anything statistically.

I have no numbers but as a French, I know literally nobody who have not been to school/kindergarten at 3.

Starting school at 3, while not mandatory before the law, was just the norm for barely everyone.

Re:'Children of Men' is happening by oblak on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:54PM (#30735934)
That makes sense. Such a system would also have to include transportation, food, etc. It's probably a good move if the funding is there. France is wealthy enough I think.