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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, there are some daycares (not-for-profits, mostly) that believe in providing a living wage and benefits to their employees. Let's be clear, it's  still not high pay, but it's certainly not minimum wage. There are daycares in the general area (e.g., Wonders in Bethesda) that offer tuition remission for teachers' children, health care subsidies, and raises for additional certifications. I believe Wonders' turnover at their core operation in Bethesda is much lower, maybe  15-20%. Keep in mind that a 20% turnover means that people work there for an average of 5 years. This means for every person who comes in for just one year and realizes it's not their thing or doesn't work out, there is a teacher with 10 years of experience.

This is generally NOT true of the for-profits places like Bright Horizons, who basically abuse a lot of their employees by keeping them part-time and/or cutting their hours when kids call in sick. You're going to get high turnover in that kind of environment and hence why the average turnover across all daycares is something like 40%[/quote]

I think you have to look at each daycare individually. I visited one Goddard School where they have teachers that have been there for 20 years.  At a different Goddard School, I asked about turnover and got a speech about how there is turnover at all daycares.  Goddard has a franchise model so it does depend on the owner of the specific facility.  We're currently a for-profit daycare, but it's a local business with just a few locations, and is very well-run, with low turnover.

When I was visiting daycares while pregnant I felt completely ill-equipped to decide what the best place would be for my baby.  The main thing I ended up looking at was, do the teachers look happy?  And it's worked out well so far.[/quote]

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