It’s a familiar paradox to every parent who works outside the home –
childcare costs so much that sometimes it just makes more sense to stay
home, even if that’s not what you would really prefer to do –and that’s
if you can find a spot in a halfway decent center.
So I thought this brief blog post
from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Working Dad, Paul Nyhan, to be
interesting. He stated that on average, child care center directors –
that is, the people running the show – make 35 percent less than
kindergarten teachers. You know the people who have the most direct
contact with the kids make much less. And 17 percent of all family-owed
child care centers have closed in the last five years.
Something like half of all kids are regularly in child care, he states –
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