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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are just making up numbers, you clearly don't know the cost of renting space that meets all the requirements for a daycare, plus has access to the outside in Arlington.  You're also leaving out many things, from small from art supplies, to payroll costs, to curriculum, and you have crappy ratios, especially in that 3 year old room.  2 adults for 20 kids at that age is chaos.

For one thing, in education we generally figure that an employee costs about 1/3 again as much as their salary.  T[b]hat covers health insurance, sick and annual leave, professional development etc . . . [/b] Apply that to the salaries you have, and you've already exceeded all the money you think of as profit.  [/quote]

Not the OP, but I worked in childcare/early education and never received health benefits, and had minimal "professional development" (ie we might have a volunteer come speak to us for an hour here and there).  Also had minimal sick leave which sucks when you work with young kids and get sick a lot.

To answer the OP, childcare workers are poorly paid everywhere because they aren't considered valuable to our society as a whole.  [/quote]

But OP is arguing that you can do right by your employees and still make a significant profit.  Paying your employees $60K and not giving them health insurance, or sick leave isn't the solution.

I've only done childcare in DC but there are laws about the amount of PD, and about things like CPR training.  The big cost of PD isn't the PD provider, it's the leave for the staff.  If you have to give each of your 10 staff 4 hours of leave for CPR, that's a chunk of money even if you're paying them minimum wage.

I absolutely agree that we seriously undervalue childcare, but $1,600/month fee that someone cites isn't actually what it would cost to provide quality care.[/quote]

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