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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with both. The preschool teacher is underpaid. The people who think it's insulting to pay nannies less than $25-30/hr don't realize that most of the middle clasa must then feel constantly insulted every single day. [/quote]

So?  I do think other people, especially women, are underpaid but that doesn’t change my nanny’s rent or cost of food.  All people should have a living wage. [/quote]

Sure all people should have a living wage. But I didn't make more than $30/hr until i was almost 30, my husband still doesn't (even though we also have to pay for rent, food, and childcare!), and so when people act like that is the minimum wage it comes off really clueless. There are a LOT of people in this country who don't make $25-30/hr, and sure, obviously we don't hire nannies, but saying that "important work" should make at least that much is out of touch with the realities of a lot of working people. It comes off as judging people for being cheap or devaluing childcare, when maybe they just can't afford it, which is morally neutral. [/quote]

What you made is irrelevant to what someone else is making in a completely different field of work. Raising and keeping another person alive is the definition of important work. How would you feel if your child was harmed or killed? People do devalue childcare and are cheap bc they only see the outer layer. [b]If you can justify paying a lot for a home just to be in DC then you shouldn’t blink at childcare cost[/b]. [/quote]

Okay, what about all the people who can’t justify paying a lot fir a home and either rent or live in the exurbs? Do their children deserve subpar childcare???

You are ignoring the real question: What happens to all the children whose parents cannot afford expensive homes in pricey neighborhoods?

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