> response to concerns about children’s mental health and a shortage of teachers.
Ha! Getting educated is so bad for children, and how insufferable an extra day among their peers must be! Disgusting!
We hear lots of complaints these days about how mal-adjusted so many children are, but is there any wonder? They are whisked from after school clubs to private sports activities, then off to bed (or homework) once their mandatory activities are done. Some of this is because parents are terrified of being considered neglectful by under-stimulating their child - but then children never learn to just exist in the presence of events which are more important than themselves.
But I have few complaints about kindergarten and undergraduate university education.