So where are you looking for a governess for the fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you pay another parent to do this if your kids are roughly the same age as theirs? How much? If I could cover a quarter of my salary, I'd consider taking a sabbatical to do this.

I have a Masters in Education but have not worked in a school since internship (went into edu policy and then into an adjacent policy field).

I paid a FFX teacher $20/hr to supervise the APS curriculum in the spring for lower elementary. If I go in with a pod for fall I imagine we’ll be paying $30-40/hr for 3-4 kids. So if it was my kid and yours and you were hosting, I’d pay $15-20/hr, on the books, through a nanny payroll type company.

That’s really low. I pay teenage babysitters that much.

I agree that's low for a real teacher. It also doesn't account for a covid-risk premium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you pay another parent to do this if your kids are roughly the same age as theirs? How much? If I could cover a quarter of my salary, I'd consider taking a sabbatical to do this.

I have a Masters in Education but have not worked in a school since internship (went into edu policy and then into an adjacent policy field).

I paid a FFX teacher $20/hr to supervise the APS curriculum in the spring for lower elementary. If I go in with a pod for fall I imagine we’ll be paying $30-40/hr for 3-4 kids. So if it was my kid and yours and you were hosting, I’d pay $15-20/hr, on the books, through a nanny payroll type company.

That’s really low. I pay teenage babysitters that much.

Yeah, no kidding. What unicorn would take this job?

[Anonymous]

People in my neighborhood are talking about this and I forwarded the discussion to a young relative who is finishing her PhD but I just don’t see the rates discussed here and in that thread being particularly attractive for someone with an education, particularly given the risks involved and the amount of work it would require for someone to gain familiarity with multiple curricula to cover multiple grades in a pod.
And this is why governesses generally only taught crap subjects like curtesying and needlework and were generally impoverished orphans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you pay another parent to do this if your kids are roughly the same age as theirs? How much? If I could cover a quarter of my salary, I'd consider taking a sabbatical to do this.

I have a Masters in Education but have not worked in a school since internship (went into edu policy and then into an adjacent policy field).

I paid a FFX teacher $20/hr to supervise the APS curriculum in the spring for lower elementary. If I go in with a pod for fall I imagine we’ll be paying $30-40/hr for 3-4 kids. So if it was my kid and yours and you were hosting, I’d pay $15-20/hr, on the books, through a nanny payroll type company.

That’s really low. I pay teenage babysitters that much.

I agree that's low for a real teacher. It also doesn't account for a covid-risk premium.

This is absurdly low this is what I expect of babysitters who play hide and seek with my kids and keep them alive while I’m out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t deal with the uncertainty and even though it will be a huge financial hit, long term it’s clearly better than quitting my job. If you’re in the same boat as me (very very lucky, I know) where are you looking to find someone to school your children?

At the orphan asylum in Halifax, here is my advertisement:

Red hair, preferable. Must have experience with croup, twins, butter churning, cow-minding, poetry recitation. Puffed sleeves provided upon request.

[Anonymous]

Keep an eye on your husband.

Reader, I married him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t deal with the uncertainty and even though it will be a huge financial hit, long term it’s clearly better than quitting my job. If you’re in the same boat as me (very very lucky, I know) where are you looking to find someone to school your children?

At the orphan asylum in Halifax, here is my advertisement:

Red hair, preferable. Must have experience with croup, twins, butter churning, cow-minding, poetry recitation. Puffed sleeves provided upon request.

You are hysterical and probably a kindred spirit, but it might just be the raspberry cordials speaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t deal with the uncertainty and even though it will be a huge financial hit, long term it’s clearly better than quitting my job. If you’re in the same boat as me (very very lucky, I know) where are you looking to find someone to school your children?

At the orphan asylum in Halifax, here is my advertisement:

Red hair, preferable. Must have experience with croup, twins, butter churning, cow-minding, poetry recitation. Puffed sleeves provided upon request.

You are hysterical and probably a kindred spirit, but it might just be the raspberry cordials speaking.

My bosom friends

[Anonymous]

We're advertising for a "gap year" Canadian who will act as our "distance learning supervisor" in return for travel expenses, room board, Metro passes, gift cards etc. Gap year girl or guy's job will be to keep our 2 upper grades kids track to complete their DCPS' DL assignments, jazzing content up a bit with games, songs, activities. We sucked as home schooling parents in the spring and want live-in help this time around. We've advertised on a couple Canadian job sites geared to young people and are receiving promising sounding inquiries. Canadians can still travel to the US on 6-month tourist visas that are issued automatically. They can stay with American families as unpaid guests. Canadian tourists can no longer cross land borders but can still fly in. We're currently checking references and interviewing applicants and expect to have a young person in the house to supervise most of our children's DL by Labor Day. We hosted au pairs on J-1 visas for years, so not a big change for us (just no more J-1 visas in the mix as the WH has frozen au pair visas at least til the end of the year).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're advertising for a "gap year" Canadian who will act as our "distance learning supervisor" in return for travel expenses, room board, Metro passes, gift cards etc. Gap year girl or guy's job will be to keep our 2 upper grades kids track to complete their DCPS' DL assignments, jazzing content up a bit with games, songs, activities. We sucked as home schooling parents in the spring and want live-in help this time around. We've advertised on a couple Canadian job sites geared to young people and are receiving promising sounding inquiries. Canadians can still travel to the US on 6-month tourist visas that are issued automatically. They can stay with American families as unpaid guests. Canadian tourists can no longer cross land borders but can still fly in. We're currently checking references and interviewing applicants and expect to have a young person in the house to supervise most of our children's DL by Labor Day. We hosted au pairs on J-1 visas for years, so not a big change for us (just no more J-1 visas in the mix as the WH has frozen au pair visas at least til the end of the year).

Metro passes is an interesting incentive at this point.

[Anonymous]

I agree that it's time to get resourceful. DL days stink for most families.

[Anonymous]

Does she need to fly with an umbrella?

[Anonymous]

References to Jane Eyre, Anne Shirley and Maria von Trapp! This is absolutely the best thread ever in the history of DCUM. Keep it up, readers, kindred spirits and nuns.

[Anonymous]

And how could i forget Mary Poppins,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I intend to hire a governess for my children this fall. My only concern is that I might fall in love with her, and then when she realizes I'm keeping my mad wife locked in the attic, flee and leave me heartbroken. But I'm confident things will work out for us in the end.

Is your dog named Pilot?