Anonymous wrote:Agree with the PP about childcare. I was the lead teacher in a kindergarten classroom. It was a daycare as well. I was there during the academic part of the day. Basically 8:30 until 12:30. I also worked with licensing for several years and did inspections. I'm not going to share stories because I would just be accused of being a troll. But I swore I would never put my child in a daycare center after seeing what goes on even in the very best.

It gets better when kids become more verbal. At least then they can tell you what happens.

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Anonymous wrote:The amount of sexual harassment in colleges would astound you And the mean at high level universities- Ivy's and similar. Be ESP careful sending your kids on trips with profs. Even more common from profs to grad students but sometimes grad students will have sex with profs if they pursue them. Either to have an easier time with Orval's or disssrtation or because they are enamored with them. Still power is so unequal. Profs have complete control over these kids careers. Academic freedom means univ usually turns a blind eye.

Also profs are often ego driven and commonly present their students work as their own. Treatment of grad students is horrible. Pretty girls will be chased around the desk constantly. Although I've known males to be harassed by female profs also.

And not always student to prof. There is a huge amount of extramarital sex happening between profs also. One of the most unethical and depraved group of people I ever worked with overall.

So true.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with financial services industry. My do is in a related industry and we would never recommend some hire of financial planners unless you have no clue at and many millions of dollars. And I mean many millions. Keep it simple with plenty of insurance and diversified index funds plus some international. Only funds not single stocks. You can read about percentages as you age. But finan svcs people are notoriously terrible at managing their own money and are just trying to maximize their commission. On,y ever use fee based ones and even that I would not recommend.

Anonymous wrote:Government agency and the climate change numbers were based on erroneus data.

Anonymous wrote:The amount of sexual harassment in colleges would astound you And the mean at high level universities- Ivy's and similar. Be ESP careful sending your kids on trips with profs. Even more common from profs to grad students but sometimes grad students will have sex with profs if they pursue them. Either to have an easier time with Orval's or disssrtation or because they are enamored with them. Still power is so unequal. Profs have complete control over these kids careers. Academic freedom means univ usually turns a blind eye.

Also profs are often ego driven and commonly present their students work as their own. Treatment of grad students is horrible. Pretty girls will be chased around the desk constantly. Although I've known males to be harassed by female profs also.

And not always student to prof. There is a huge amount of extramarital sex happening between profs also. One of the most unethical and depraved group of people I ever worked with overall.

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Anonymous wrote:Give me a break with the daycare stories. The teachers at our center send their own kids there. Explain that?

+1. Our center director and many of the teachers send their kids to our center. I check on the video feed often and have never once seen teachers eating the kids' food, hitting, falling down drunk on the playground, etc.

Same - and I drop in unannounced all the time, as do other parents. Zero issues.

You are kidding yourself. Staff know when parents are in the facility. There are often code words used. "Elvis is in the building" was used whenever a parent was unexpectedly on-site at my last center. I worked with a teacher who would put her long coat over kids and pretend to be hugging them. She was pinching their little ears. Another teacher took kids in the bathrooms out the camera site and smacked them on the head with their shoes if they took them off. These were degreed teachers in accredited centers. Yes I reported.

It would take me hours to list all the scary stuff I saw in even the "best centers". There are some great teachers out there. But there are also some awful ones. Low pay plus the stress of dealing with young children and long hours with few breaks creates a less than ideal environment.

Whatever.

I think it's hilarious at people don't believe these stories. Why would PPs lie about this crap? Nobody is trying to scare anyone off from daycare, but this does exist.

I think there are nannies from the nanny forum who are pretty invested in scare stories. My kids are much older and I did all variants of childcare when they were younger so don't really have a horse in this race, but this is a pattern I've seen on DCUM.

Good point.

+1. DCUM is heavily populated by nannies. I don't trust a lot of what I read. Including the salaries, benefits and how bad daycares are. It doesn't mesh with my own personal experience or from what my friends/relatives say.

I would definitely tell myself the same thing if my kids lived at daycare. So heartbreaking. How would you like to spend 10 hours a day in the same room?

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Everyone is an odd combination of lazy, entitled and neurotic!

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. A lot smoke weed. A lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Give me a break with the daycare stories. The teachers at our center send their own kids there. Explain that?

+1. Our center director and many of the teachers send their kids to our center. I check on the video feed often and have never once seen teachers eating the kids' food, hitting, falling down drunk on the playground, etc.

Same - and I drop in unannounced all the time, as do other parents. Zero issues.

You are kidding yourself. Staff know when parents are in the facility. There are often code words used. "Elvis is in the building" was used whenever a parent was unexpectedly on-site at my last center. I worked with a teacher who would put her long coat over kids and pretend to be hugging them. She was pinching their little ears. Another teacher took kids in the bathrooms out the camera site and smacked them on the head with their shoes if they took them off. These were degreed teachers in accredited centers. Yes I reported.

It would take me hours to list all the scary stuff I saw in even the "best centers". There are some great teachers out there. But there are also some awful ones. Low pay plus the stress of dealing with young children and long hours with few breaks creates a less than ideal environment.

Whatever.

I think it's hilarious at people don't believe these stories. Why would PPs lie about this crap? Nobody is trying to scare anyone off from daycare, but this does exist.

I think there are nannies from the nanny forum who are pretty invested in scare stories. My kids are much older and I did all variants of childcare when they were younger so don't really have a horse in this race, but this is a pattern I've seen on DCUM.

Good point.

+1. DCUM is heavily populated by nannies. I don't trust a lot of what I read. Including the salaries, benefits and how bad daycares are. It doesn't mesh with my own personal experience or from what my friends/relatives say.

I would definitely tell myself the same thing if my kids lived at daycare. So heartbreaking. How would you like to spend 10 hours a day in the same room?

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. A lot smoke weed. A lot.

Really? What grade do you teach? This doesn't describe my co-workers - unfortunately.