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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do these amazing toddler teachers earn a decent living wage, or do they depend on their families for basic support?

Every parent should absolutely know what these people get paid for their hard work. Yes?
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I worked at a daycare in college--admittedly some years ago--and would be willing to bet the answer to this question is NO.  At the very least, the workers are not earning the type of wages required to rent an apartment reasonably close to work (even with a roommate earning about the same, this would be really tough unless they somehow qualified for a subsidized place), pay for health insurance and/or car insurance and/or student loans, food, etc.

I posted about this in some other thread, but the place where I worked was in a college town and most of the daycare workers eventually went on to become teachers or work with kids in some capacity.  That was a good setup for everyone involved but aside from the people who ran the centers, no one was in it as a lifetime career.  It was a lot different from places I saw while working in daycares in the DC Metro area during the summers when I was home.  [/quote]

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