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[quote=Anonymous][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. If you can justify paying a lot for a home just to be in DC then you shouldn’t blink at childcare cost. [/quote]

I feel like you're not reading what i wrote. I am specifically objecting to the idea that people who balk at the cost do it because they think childcare is not important. That is not the case at all. Plenty of important work does not come with a high paycheck, e.g. in home care for the elderly and disabled. What someone makes in an unrelated field is relevant insofar as half this forum is saying "get a nanny while day cares and schools are closed" and then assuming, when someone says "wow that's really expensive," that it's because they think it isn't important. See, you're responding to that as if I'd said children's safety isn't worth considering, when what i actually said is that a lot of people can't afford it no matter how they [i]feel[/i] about it.

Also, who says everyone can justify paying a lot for a home to be in DC? Lots of people rent and commute from far out because they can't. I hate how the assumption is that everyone has a ton of money and just doesn't want to share it with nannies, rather than that nannies make a decent salary here and so it's not in the budget of families with similar salaries to hire one.[/quote]

I responded to exactly what you wrote. If you meant something else then you should’ve posted that instead. [/quote]

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