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Who is taking care of the children? Who works in the daycares?
by Consultant32452 7y ago
Who is taking care of the children? Who works in the daycares?
- coldtea 7y agoThey who work in the daycares are not a "serf class", they are paid professionals, and they don't need to have "terrible wages" in a civilized country.
- Consultant32452 7y agoSure, they don't need to have terrible wages. Do they though? Are daycare workers a healthy mix of educated men and women with a lot of other economic opportunities but choose to be daycare workers because of the pay or emotional rewards?
- badpun 7y agoIn Poland, you need to have a specialized degree to work with children in a daycare/kindergarden. The wages mostly suck though.
- Swizec 7y agoWhere I’m from (slovenia) you need to major in kindergarten education to be a kindergarten teacher. So while the major is a little limited, it’s still a bachelors.
- coldtea 7y ago>Are daycare workers a healthy mix of educated men and women with a lot of other economic opportunities but choose to be daycare workers because of the pay or emotional rewards? That's shifting the goalposts a little. Why would they need to have "a lot of other economic opportunities" anymore than tons of jobs (restaurant staff, retail employees, factory workers, truckers, etc) have?
- varjag 7y agoHere in Norway daycare is an OK respectable job. Not particularly high paying but not the lowest on the scale either. A full time daycare professional can pay their rent, living expenses and travel for vacation off that.
- ryanmercer 7y ago>They who work in the daycares are not a "serf class", they are paid professionals I wouldn't say 'professionals', in the United States daycare workers can expect to make a little more than minimum wage to start and might get up to 10-11$ an hour for dealing with the maximum number of kids allowed by law all day. And unless you're talking some elite, gotta get on a waiting list and pay 30 grand a year to send one kid, anyone that passes a background check can get a job in daycare.
- ido 7y agoI live in Germany, both my kids go to public kindergarten/daycare (there is no distinction between the 2 here, it starts when the child is 1 year old) & the kindergarten teachers are mostly German themselves. They don't earn great wages but they are not indentured servants either.
- Consultant32452 7y agoRight. So there's a large group of mostly women who accept low wages to store children so more privileged people can go earn higher wages.
- majewsky 7y agoIf anything, the wages are so low because people like you consider these thankless hard jobs "child storage".
- ido 7y agoWhy do you assume the kindergarten teachers earn less than they would have otherwise had in a different job or less than the average parent of the kids in their group? I mean yes, I support better wages for them (jobs in education generally don't pay that great) & I'm sure people working in the financial sector earn much more but I don't think that was the alternative the common teacher had to chose from. As I said wages are not great but they are not that far from the median. My wife (teacher in a music school) doesn't earn more than a kindergarten teacher, the advantage is mostly in economies of scale (1 teacher per 6-7 pupils vs 1 mother per 1-3 offspring).
- DomreiRoam 7y agoThey are professional trained, it takes 4 years to get a "puériculteur/puéricultrice" diploma in a university or equivalent. You have also nursery assistant that works under the supervision but even that need formal training + hand-on experience. It varies a lot from country to country, but to assume that nobody would like to work with small children or that, as a parent, you would let your children under the care of untrained people is strange for me.
- lostjohnny 7y agoThe state! Have you ever heard about public schools? They are a thing in Europe. have you ever heard of family? Kids usually have four grand parents (sometimes less, sometimes more)