As technology advances, why do kids even need to be gathered together in schools?

Socialization, learning to deal with other people, part of the maturity process, so parents can work all day while there kids are somewhere else, extracurricular activities, mentors, human interactions, etc...

At our core, we are animals. We're meant to socialize and be outside and interact with the world.

You give a child a computer screen and sit him inside and cut him off from human interaction and you'll raise a psychopath.

So who’s going to watch the kids when parents are at work?

You didn’t think this all the way through, as is typical with your hair-braided posts.

to learn how to interact with other people?

I’d think social aspect would be a big reason.

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antiquated notion that children have to gather together in a school building

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There's nothing antiquated about people being together.

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hair-braided posts.

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That's a creative way to spell.

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is it an antiquated notion that children have to gather together in a school building?

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The parents have to go work. Someone has to take of the kids.

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Why is it dumb?

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Read some of the replies. The answers are already here.

Public schools are nothing but government funded daycare at this point. When weather dictates schools must close, look at how many parent complain bc they have no where to send their kids. They aren't concerned about the kids missing education; they are concerned about daycare.