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HotDamn18V t1_j5tg0ai wrote

Reply to comment by McJumpington in can someone meteorologically explain why snow is adverse to pittsburgh or does mother nature just not want to see us pgh skiers happy? by d071399

Same. Every day it's "we need 7 volunteers to stay home today and pay us", which I get, I guess, but they had this teed up at like 6PM yesterday so you know they were salivating over it.

Edit: I creeped through your post history. Pretty sure our kids know each other haha. You're basically me.

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McJumpington t1_j5tsuzx wrote

It’s the worst! I think volunteers should get credit amounts of at least half day fee applied to next week charge. Just burning money is aggravating.

We volunteered a TON, but now it’s just too much cost to keep doing.

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HotDamn18V t1_j5twu2g wrote

Same. My kid already only goes 3 days and being that we work from home, we've volunteered several times. I try not to be mad at them though. Not having staff blows and those teachers are paid only a fraction of what they deserve.

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McJumpington t1_j5u15fq wrote

I’ve considered approaching one of the teachers and offering under the table money to be our personal sitter lol. They honestly should be paid great for the amount the center charges and how wonderful many of them are.

I’m sure there’s far more overhead costs I’m not aware of….but I also know there is a successful daycare closer to me that only would cost 2k a month for both kids…. The waiting list is stupid king though. I should be able to get my son in the toddler class around the time he’s in 7th grade

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HotDamn18V t1_j5u32fx wrote

Yeah. My kid will be going to Kindergarten before too long here so I'm not willing to rock the boat or change anything. But yeah, I'm excited for "free" childcare, despite my angst about him getting older.

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HurdlingThroughSpace t1_j5v0vjp wrote

Wait, so you guys pay for daycare and they still ask volunteers to work for them? Despite being paid? A lot I might add…I fail to see how this is acceptable.

I don’t have kids so I may be ignorant to the details behind it all. I’d be pissed if they asked me to work for free despite my paying them for a service. 🤔

Just saw the post below, I see it is in fact absolute BS lol

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HotDamn18V t1_j5v6r9f wrote

No, not volunteers to work. They're asking families to volunteer to not send their children that day to maintain a legal or practical student to teacher ratio. These kids then stay home, but because of how these places operate and need to pay their teachers and other personnel, you get no discount or anything. You'd just eat the cost.

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HurdlingThroughSpace t1_j5v6wkm wrote

Ahhhh that makes way more sense. Hmm still frustrating none the less

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HotDamn18V t1_j5v75bf wrote

Yeah but it's hard to blame anyone. What should happen is free early childhood education for families subsidized by the government.

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