Like it or not, our society has been set up (for many years now) such that children attend school during the days. Implying that parents are the bad guys and "t

Like it or not, our society has been set up (for many years now) such that children attend school during the days. Implying that parents are the bad guys and "treating schools as daycare" is disingenuous and insulting. Parents, and society as a whole, make long term, life plans around the fact that children will be in school; not because it's a daycare, but because it's important and required. Changing that (cancelling school) impacts life in a significant, financial way; the kind of way that negatively effects both parents and children. We see the same type of thing when schools suddenly change starting times to be later; work schedules need to change and it's very stressful to everyone; people lose jobs over it. This is like that, but orders of magnitude more impactful.