Even watching mindless TikTok videos technically takes some mental and physical effort, if minimal. In that respect, the kids are indeed working. And educators

Even watching mindless TikTok videos technically takes some mental and physical effort, if minimal. In that respect, the kids are indeed working. And educators are able to work with children in that sense. But that is not the context setup here. The OP implies productive work. The work children put in around education is not productive. It can enable future work to be more productive, perhaps, but it is not productive work in the moment. It is consumptive. In that sense, educators work for the kids, they do not work with the kids.