[DainBramage]

This is just state funded day care for a severely disabled child.

Some firemen I work with get payed 250$ a day to go sit in classrooms

with kids like this one and keep them occupied.

They even keep these kids over the summer!

[Sungirl]

What? They pay them $250 a day to do what? Babysit? What does the teacher do? What a waste. DO the taxpayers know about that??
THis kid needs to be in a special school...he must be disruptive to the other kids.
If I was one of these other parents, I'd be mad that this kid was causing problems and interrupting school classrooms.

[Balding_Eagle]

Some firemen I work with get payed 250$ a day to go sit in classrooms

That's crazy. However, I could not do that for a $1,000 a day.

That said, this whole arrangement is cruel and unneccessary. Surely there is a better, and less costly way to care for these children.

OH.............gasp! Do you think that in many cases the family could care for them? Of course we (society) should help with occasional sitters etc, but no one (I repeat NO ONE) can love the child like the family.

[VeritatisSplendor]

$250 a day? Where on earth do you live? Can I move there? Here in NJ instructional aides as they call them get paid about $50 a day, for a lovely $9000 a year.

Mrs VS