Q5

[b91302310]

I think that answer (D) is shown in lines 3 -5 and therefore supported by the passage,so why this one is correct?

Thanks

[cyruswhittaker]

There's a subtle detail shift. Line 2-5 support the first first sentence but don't mention daycares. Then in line 5, which begans with "although" the author says that day-care can resolve scheduling conflicts.

But the author doesn't link day cares to being inadequate explicitly due to vacations, which is what D does.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT2]

I agree w/Cyrus --

The lines you mention don't specifically discuss vacations.

The lines you cited discuss scheduling conflicts and emergencies -- that's not enough to suggest anything specifically about what parents need to do during vacations.

Furthermore, the question is about how well (or poorly) daycare helps alleviate pressure from parents -- it's not clear how parents would connect the idea of daycare-during-vacation to pressure-relieving (maybe vacation is a chance for parents to spend time with their kids).

[mimimimi]

i think there is a subtle detail shift: in D) , it talks about "during vacations" whereas in the passage, it talks about "during school vacations." Well, parents do not necessarily need day care during their vacations right?

[EmilyL849]

Hi, teachers

So, (A) ... I was battling between (A) and (D).

For (D), like above posts mentioned, is not talked about in relation to daycare. Granted. However, (A) also is not talked about in relation to daycare. I feel like (D) is a better evil of the two.

This paragraph is about difficulties parents face due to the lack of recognition of parental responsibilities in labor force. It talks about how daycare cannot be a complete solution. And goes on to point out children need more than "care". "Children need more than tending; they also need meaningful time with their parents." So, besides tending, for which daycare provides an incomplete solution, children need quality time with their parents. It makes sense to think about the latter as a separate problem cause by labor force. And also, quality time with parents is not something that daycare can ever really provide anyways, it does not make sense to fault daycare. How is daycare suppose to provide quality time..? Face-timing during lunch hour??


Thank you

[ohthatpatrick]

First, we should go to the passage to find what lines are available that relate to "daycare being at best a partial solution".

Lines 8-12 seem to fit the bill.

We just got done saying that "Many people are unable to procure daycare."

Lines 8-12 say
"Even they DO obtain day care, parents must still cope with X. Moreover, Y."

The "moreover" is a rhetorical continuation marker, meaning "I'm still building the same point".

So that's how we know that line 10-12 is connected to daycare and thus how we'd eliminate (A). Your concern about "why are we blaming daycare for this? What are they supposed to do, set up lunchtime Facetime?" is a little irrelevant to the question stem. We're not faulting daycare for failing to provide meaningful time with parents.

We're saying "one of the pressures associated with child rearing is needing to get meaningful time with your children". Daycare, it sounds like you would agree, does NOT help us solve that problem, because of the obvious statement that when the kids are at daycare the parents are not at daycare.

When your kid is in daycare for a day that parallels a normal 9 - 5 work day, you essentially get them breakfast in the morning, drop them off, pick them up, give them dinner and put them to bed. You've solved the pressure of "who's gonna take care of my kid while I work?" but not the pressure of "how can I spend lots of meaningful time with my children?"

The problem with (D) is two-fold:
it's referencing something that was brought up prior to daycare, whereas the other four answers are directly in relation to daycare.

It's jumbling two different problems together --
Daycare is for pre-school aged kids. They don't have summer vacations in daycare. Daycare is year round (if you want it to be)

The vacation thing was something brought up in relation to school aged kids. That was saying "sure, once they're in school, the daytimes are covered for free (public school), but the summers still present a scheduling problem because schools are closed in the summer."

So the "vacation" problem is specific to school aged children, not daycare aged children.

Hope this helps.