You get government vouchers to cover the cost of that twenty hours of childcare.
The beauty of this, as opposed to sending your child to school, is that it's flexible and works around you. With school your child had to be there from nine o'clock until three o'clock every day. You had to work around these hours. Making sure your child got picked up or dropped off at these times. No matter the inconvenience to you or the child. Now the childcare works around you. Mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends. It covers the time you need covering. Nothing more, nothing less.
The Actual Education of Your Child
Now school is abolished your child has an online curriculum, chosen by you. (Though you can just follow the standard government-recommended curriculum if you'd prefer.) And they can do their work anytime they or you want them to. They simply open their laptop and get started. If they need help they can watch lessons online. Or they can ask the AI assistant. Or they can ask for help from online human teaching assistants.
When you send your child to childcare you can ask that your child spends some time doing this work. Perhaps they attend for five hours and you want them to spend two hours on education. The rest they can spend playing. The childcare worker doesn't have to be a teacher or an expert in Maths and English. All they have to do is help your child access the lessons and expert help that are available to them online.
Schools Become Education Hubs
On top of this, the place that was once your local school is now an education hub. More like a college than a school. Instead of attending rigidly from nine o'clock each day until three, as children once did, now your child simply attends for a few hours a week for specific lessons - in a timeslot that is convenient to you. Just as someone would go for a driving lesson at a specific time for that specific reason.
The government offers you ten hours of this local, in person, education to use each week. And you can use as little or as much of it as you like.
This real world education is focused on the most crucial aspects of education - Maths and English. It also offers things that develop social skills and public speaking. Such as sports, debate and drama.
So, for example, your child could have a ninety minute maths lesson on a Monday morning. Two hours of English on a Tuesday afternoon. Then drama class on Thursday evening.
As these education hubs would no longer be providing round the clock care for every child, as they did when they were schools, the quality of education offered would be dramatically improved. Instead of thirty children to a classroom, for six or seven whole hours each day, there would be one or two hours lessons that have just four or five children in the room.
There would be less time in school, but that time would be much more focused and worthwhile.
Likewise, poor or struggling families could be allocated more of this in person help with education if that was needed.
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[To give a simpler example as an addendum, you could halve class sizes just by halving the length of the school day. Instead of thirty children in a classroom for six hours you could have fifteen in the morning and fifteen in the afternoon. This would be better for the actual education of the child. They'd be happier, school would be more peaceful and inducive to learning, and they'd get more care and individual focus.
However, if this happened people would cry, "But who will look after the child on the morning/afternoon when I'm at work!"
Showing again that school in its current form is little more than glorified childcare. Though people are loath to admit this. That's why school needs scrapping altogether and replacing with actual (and genuinely flexible) childcare. It's only then that an education that works for the actual sake of the child's development and learning can be put into place.]
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