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To: wintertime
Your are forgetting the day care regulations though. A licensed baby sitter is limited regarding the number of children she can watch. Beyond that number she must hire someone to help her. Did you take that into account.

Yes, I thought about that issue. But, it doesn't apply here. Your position was to pay "TEACHERS" wages that day care providers are paid, not to turn teachers into day care providers. Since there is no regulations regarding the number of students that a teacher has in a classroom, this is a non-issue with respect to this hypothetical.

As to the last part of your "questions", you seem to have failed to realize what you're asking. The original statement of yours was to pay individual teachers the wages that are paid to day care providers. Since that was the only issue raised, there was no need to go into the logistics of such issues as meal preparation (schools already have the equipment), ADA accessibility (schools already comply with ADA), fire protections (schools already have that built in to the facilities), etc, etc, etc. Again, this was not a question of making teachers leave their position in order to become simply a day care provider for children, but, as you indicated, changing the pay scale for teachers to match that of day care providers. You defined the operational rules in your original post.

83 posted on 11/01/2011 2:06:15 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad
Your position was to pay “TEACHERS” wages that day care providers are paid,
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Honestly....Do they teach and form of rational thinking in education colleges?

You are comparing a single government teacher of 30 students ( $3.00/hour/child) to a day care worker who is forbidden by law to have that many. If the day care worker does have 30 children then there are very **significant** expenses ( employee wages, building and rental expenses, health and safety requirements, and handicap expenses such as very expensive ramps and bathrooms) that come out **directly** out of the fees paid to her by the parents.

You aren't comparing apples to oranges. You are comparing apples with a Boeing 747!

Honestly.... I absolutely believe that **all** government teachers should be required to take ( at minimum) the first semester of Calculus for engineering and science majors. They should be required to sit side by side with these science and engineering majors and take the very **same** classes. It might help with the faulty reasoning seen in your post.

I would suggest that education majors take Calculus I, II, and III, and differential equations but few would graduate.

92 posted on 11/01/2011 2:51:07 PM PDT by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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