How much to pay a pod teacher?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: just saw a zoom presentation from a local company charging a flat rate of $5k/month for up to five kids. the "tutor" is not a teacher and will only manage your kids other online classes and then provide some kind of "enrichment" actiity. They provide no lesson planning on assistance with homework. 9-4 five days a week. Parents have to form their own pods, 5k is flat rate even if you only have one 2 kids in the pod.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: just saw a zoom presentation from a local company charging a flat rate of $5k/month for up to five kids. the "tutor" is not a teacher and will only manage your kids other online classes and then provide some kind of "enrichment" actiity. They provide no lesson planning on assistance with homework. 9-4 five days a week. Parents have to form their own pods, 5k is flat rate even if you only have one 2 kids in the pod.

So basically they are offering a corona-free warm body to tell your pod/kids to get online, listen to the teacher and then make a noodle necklace afterwards. That costs about $30 per hour. I guess It could be an option. $1000 per family if you have 5 kids in the pod.

Wait? Isn’t this also called a nanny share or babysitting? Lol!

[Anonymous]

We've lined up a college kid to live in our guest room, eat with us, and supervise two kids' DL each morning, plus two friends of our kids for two mornings. College kid can't return to her campus this fall, has her own studying to do most of the day and no longer wishes to stay with her family in a crowded NYC apartment.

Our family is paying room, board and $150/week. The other two families will pay $160/week combined.

We're OK with the DL supports our DCPS provides, but need an upbeat, with-it babysitter to supervise, and talk about content with the kids, to keep them engaged. We couldn't do that in the spring and the kids wandered off assigned links too much, and complained about being lonely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've lined up a college kid to live in our guest room, eat with us, and supervise two kids' DL each morning, plus two friends of our kids for two mornings. College kid can't return to her campus this fall, has her own studying to do most of the day and no longer wishes to stay with her family in a crowded NYC apartment.

Our family is paying room, board and $150/week. The other two families will pay $160/week combined.

We're OK with the DL supports our DCPS provides, but need an upbeat, with-it babysitter to supervise, and talk about content with the kids, to keep them engaged. We couldn't do that in the spring and the kids wandered off assigned links too much, and complained about being lonely.

Congrats. I really hope it all works. I like people being flexible and trying to find solutions that work for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've lined up a college kid to live in our guest room, eat with us, and supervise two kids' DL each morning, plus two friends of our kids for two mornings. College kid can't return to her campus this fall, has her own studying to do most of the day and no longer wishes to stay with her family in a crowded NYC apartment.

Our family is paying room, board and $150/week. The other two families will pay $160/week combined.

We're OK with the DL supports our DCPS provides, but need an upbeat, with-it babysitter to supervise, and talk about content with the kids, to keep them engaged. We couldn't do that in the spring and the kids wandered off assigned links too much, and complained about being lonely.

Sounds like the beginning of a Lifetime movie- My College Baby Sitter Stole My Husband! Haha! Just Kidding! Kinda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've lined up a college kid to live in our guest room, eat with us, and supervise two kids' DL each morning, plus two friends of our kids for two mornings. College kid can't return to her campus this fall, has her own studying to do most of the day and no longer wishes to stay with her family in a crowded NYC apartment.

Our family is paying room, board and $150/week. The other two families will pay $160/week combined.

We're OK with the DL supports our DCPS provides, but need an upbeat, with-it babysitter to supervise, and talk about content with the kids, to keep them engaged. We couldn't do that in the spring and the kids wandered off assigned links too much, and complained about being lonely.

Sounds like the beginning of a Lifetime movie- My College Baby Sitter Stole My Husband! Haha! Just Kidding! Kinda.

HA HA!! Not the OP, but I can already see Candace Cameron Bure playing the mom in this movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've lined up a college kid to live in our guest room, eat with us, and supervise two kids' DL each morning, plus two friends of our kids for two mornings. College kid can't return to her campus this fall, has her own studying to do most of the day and no longer wishes to stay with her family in a crowded NYC apartment.

Our family is paying room, board and $150/week. The other two families will pay $160/week combined.

We're OK with the DL supports our DCPS provides, but need an upbeat, with-it babysitter to supervise, and talk about content with the kids, to keep them engaged. We couldn't do that in the spring and the kids wandered off assigned links too much, and complained about being lonely.

Are you paying taxes and worker’s compensation insurance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a veteran teacher with experience in upper-income communities, my personal tutoring rate is $100/hour.

However, with requests being received for POD teaching, which means multiple hours a week, I am charging $75/hour for one on one or $50/hour for groups of two to four students ($50/hour per student).

for how many hours? are you doing lesson plans, or helping them on and off devices?

Helping with distance learning assignments and supplementing with additional lessons as needed.

[Anonymous]

For parents doing pods, how are you approaching liability issues that can arise from having someone else's children in your home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For parents doing pods, how are you approaching liability issues that can arise from having someone else's children in your home?

What do people do in nanny shares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For parents doing pods, how are you approaching liability issues that can arise from having someone else's children in your home?

homeowner’s insurance and workers comp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For parents doing pods, how are you approaching liability issues that can arise from having someone else's children in your home?

What do people do in nanny shares?

What do people do when they have play dates???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For parents doing pods, how are you approaching liability issues that can arise from having someone else's children in your home?

What do people do in nanny shares?

What do people do when they have play dates???

Exactly. People are overthinking this. It’s not a at-home daycare. You’re literally just paying a babysitter or a tutor to supervise DL.

[Anonymous]

For someone that has a teaching degree $40-$60/hour.
For someone like a Kindercare teacher, $20-$40/hour depending on # of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For parents doing pods, how are you approaching liability issues that can arise from having someone else's children in your home?

What do people do in nanny shares?

What do people do when they have play dates???

Exactly. People are overthinking this. It’s not a at-home daycare. You’re literally just paying a babysitter or a tutor to supervise DL.

I very much disagree, but I guess it all depends on what people mean when they say "pod." But I think most of the descriptions here fall well outside of what people normally consider to be playdates and babysitting. If you have an older kid swinging by in the afternoon to take your kid to the park, maybe it would be babysitting. However, a regular group of kids gathering with a non-parent 3rd party for multiple hours during the day...not really.

In fact, babysitting has a very specific definition in DC employment law- it has to be provided by someone under 18 on an intermittent basis. http://dcwagelaw.com/laws/minimum-wage-overtime/dc/

If you are employing someone regularly to supervise your child(ren) and you meet the wage requirements (more than $2,100 per year in 2019) you are required to pay taxes and carry workers compensation insurance. Otherwise, you are breaking the law and, if caught or discovered, you can be sued, required to pay back wage & taxes, as well as fines.

Also, you would likely be surprised by the child care center definitions and regulations in DC. Just ask these folks- -https://www.hillrag.com/2018/10/26/hill-play-groups-in-danger-of-being-shut-down/

Of course, people break these rules all the time and folks are free to do so, but I imagine we will hear more than one horror story about pod families breaking up, pod leaders getting sick/injured, etc. Just think of the worst case scenario and plan for it- burring you head in the sand saying "this is babysitting" is shortsighted and foolish in my opinion.