Then why do they have children spend 6+ hours a day there every day for 3/4s a year? Taxpayer funded babysitting? School is there to raise children, but they

Then why do they have children spend 6+ hours a day there every day for 3/4s a year? Taxpayer funded babysitting? School is there to raise children, but they do play a lesser role compared to parents and cannot make up for absent parents. It is really to outsource the parts of child rearing that we can both scale up and have a general consensus on. (And to some extent, it does sometimes seem to be about babysitting.)