Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Including me. Though I don't know if I used the term "fear-mongering."

Aside from the daycare function -- the primary function -- you can shut it down forever with minimal damage done. I didn't attend any form of school during the period that would have covered third through eighth grade, just lived like a "lily of the valley"

Shutting down schools and imposing WFM for everyone does have high social costs. It's not sustainable forever and will reduce productivity, so it's not suitable forever. It's hard on kids too when a boy who loves to play basketball or wrestle or a girl who loves to dance can't.

you have it backwards. the system that requires daycare for children to ensure 'dual income households' (or single parent ones) is what is not sustainable. this was already obvious to anyone who noticed the panda-like levels of reproduction inside it

You're a clown man. The idea a kid can't train or work on a hobby that he looks forward to every single day is a serious tax on society. We don't live to be stuck at home everyday. Anyone arguing that lacks social skills.

Oliver is talking about using schools as daycare, you are talking about social distancing. If you don't understand the difference you don't have any business condescending to someone else.

The biggest value of public schools is to ensure things like a proper vaccine schedule.

Instead, we get kids who don't go in private school end up getting measles outbreaks in the 21st century. It's an absolute embarrassment to the country. Most average citizens are idiots who will let crazy things happen to their kids if they're not in public schools.