Originally posted by Rosuav
Jidoe - of course school is a babysitter. That's why there's so many that have "before-school care" and "after-school care" and so on; for lots of households with two incomes (or broken households with one parent and one income), shoving the kids of to school for the entire day is the cheapest way to dispose of them for all the awkward hours of "career time". That's not to say that they _can't_ learn anything at school, but frankly, if schools' curricula dumb down to the point where nobody learns anything ever, there'll still be a lot of people who get full value out of it.
I'm not sure what made you write it. That's exactly what I was saying (and it's really out of topic) but it was a minor part of my argument. The main thing I wrote is that as long as this thing is maintained, that school is viewed as nothing more than a babysitter, then teachers won't earn the respect and salaries they deserve becaue they are no longer the ones who shape society, but rather babysitters.