Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

School as child care

876 replies

Differentforgirls · 07/04/2026 18:45

From another thread.

A poster said that state schools are there for helping parents to work. Therefore teachers are childminders. Teachers!

I think schools are there to educate our children and, though the staff go above and beyond these days, that is their primary function.

AIBU?

OP posts:
NerrSnerr · 07/04/2026 18:50

i think their main purpose isn’t to hep parents work, but schools help parents be able to work. It gives you approx 6 hours a day for free that you don’t have to care for your child (at least in term time).

Swipe left for the next trending thread