School as child care

[Differentforgirls]

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?

The irony being too there's a large proportion of teachers who working mums and wouldn't be able to work if their kids weren't in school. The OPs being surprisingly quiet about this aspect...