Disrupting Day Care and Schooling

[KenyanPlato]

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May be with 5 G real technology someone can come up with a virtual daycare. You see the reason why babies are placed in daycare is due to lack of "reliable" care at home. However if you wired the whole house and hired your average daycare worker you can get the benefits of daycare accountability and safety. The other thing that needs to go is the need for kids to go and spend a whole day at school. We need online classes that will allow elementary school kids to attend classes in the morning at home and only go to school for social classes in the afternoon, The rat race of busing kids to a building needs to end in this decade 

Create a technology that does this and you will be the next billionaire

[RV Pundit]

I think the future is to integrate the workplace with daycare for working parents - esp mothers. We need woman & family-friendly workspace - so the cubicles - need to make way for some kids - without it being disruptive - or well more telecommunicating. Family is more important than job...so go to the job only in the afternoon.

This happening in my workplace

As you may know, the XYZ team is exploring starting a pilot for an early education center (daycare program) for staff members. This daycare would be within a 5-minute walk from the front gate. If the program grows, it would aim to serve children ages several months to 4-5 years

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

May be with 5 G real technology someone can come up with a virtual daycare. You see the reason why babies are placed in daycare is due to lack of "reliable" care at home. However if you wired the whole house and hired your average daycare worker you can get the benefits of daycare accountability and safety. The other thing that needs to go is the need for kids to go and spend a whole day at school. We need online classes that will allow elementary school kids to attend classes in the morning at home and only go to school for social classes in the afternoon, The rat race of busing kids to a building needs to end in this decade 

Create a technology that does this and you will be the next billionaire

I think working from home is more practical.  This is already happening without 5G.

[KenyanPlato]

Not all jobs can be done at home and not all employees csn afford daycare whether on site or outside. Cubicles are European hangup. USA has gone for flat offices. No walls just a desk and no assigned seating

[Nefertiti]

Lots of mothers or parents already use remote camera to monitor the home. Keeps housegirl well behaved. Telecommuting is the best where possible because otherwise you must still tag toddler to office. Not so different from school.

[gout]

Most Mwafrika women are mainly into dirty cheap jobs in quest for 'freedom', 'independence' and such bollocks, leaving their their kids at the hands of even worse off girls/kids to bring up their children. Long term benefits of housewiving seem unappreciated for many especially urban poor.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Most Mwafrika women are mainly into dirty cheap jobs in quest for 'freedom', 'independence' and such bollocks, leaving their their kids at the hands of even worse off girls/kids to bring up their children. Long term benefits of housewiving seem unappreciated for many especially urban poor.

Looks like gout is one of those who believe in the "idyllic" days when a woman stayed at home and took care of the kids.  Like 1950s America.  Interesting.

[KenyanPlato]

Most Mwafrika women are mainly into dirty cheap jobs in quest for 'freedom', 'independence' and such bollocks, leaving their their kids at the hands of even worse off girls/kids to bring up their children. Long term benefits of housewiving seem unappreciated for many especially urban poor.

Looks like gout is one of those who believe in the "idyllic" days when a woman stayed at home and took care of the kids.  Like 1950s America.  Interesting.

Not really but we do know that kid character is formed in the first 7 years. So we need to prioritize these years and make sure they do not spend time with a bad character or social misfit

[veritas]

Don't have kids? So glad I didn't.

It seems reasonable for communities to change their practices. So let's say there are 4 working parents, each could take a day off work to take care of all the kids. That way there's no need for Daycare. That's only 50 days a year per parent which could be cost effective long term for companies, govt, parents, win win.

[KenyanPlato]

Don't have kids? So glad I didn't.

It seems reasonable for communities to change their practices. So let's say there are 4 working parents, each could take a day off work to take care of all the kids. That way there's no need for Daycare. That's only 50 days a year per parent which could be cost effective long term for companies, govt, parents, win win.

The world no longer works that way. daycare is a necessary need for Middle class and working poor.
People will still have kids no matter what. it is a biological need that you cannot edit out of human conscience

I am thinking if you came out with a scaled up portal like Khan Academy and find a way to get it funded we can eliminate the need of most kids leaving their neighbourhoods to go to school
In Nairobi you can have a just video conference rooms set up in each estate building.. hire someone to guide kids and then have them congeragate in a field for 1 hour a day for socialization