Even in locales where workers have strong parental leave rights, school is just a place to dump the children.
The distinction between countries where school is a place to dump children versus countries where school is seen as an institution to further the countrie's standing has been made very obvious in the COVID crisis. The former countries just closed their schools and made a figleaf attempt at covering that (e.g. weekly work assignments). The latter countries dumped resources into offsetting closed schools, e.g. turning public TV into school TV, significant eLearning investments etc.
From this we can learn that school is a place to dump children even - especially - in rich, western countries with strong worker rights; meanwhile countries like Mexico fall into the latter category.
i don't think this follows. school is a kindergarten, as children require supervision. if the quality of the school is good too, great. if not, not great. mixing those two characteristics up doesn't help anybody
The distinction between countries where school is a place to dump children versus countries where school is seen as an institution to further the countrie's standing has been made very obvious in the COVID crisis. The former countries just closed their schools and made a figleaf attempt at covering that (e.g. weekly work assignments). The latter countries dumped resources into offsetting closed schools, e.g. turning public TV into school TV, significant eLearning investments etc.
From this we can learn that school is a place to dump children even - especially - in rich, western countries with strong worker rights; meanwhile countries like Mexico fall into the latter category.