Sunday, August 30, 2009

No bashing in September...

"Take our kids back, please! We're tired of paying for a daycare that charges per child, per week 100 times what it costs to send our kids to public school! We did not realize that if we paid teachers the same wage we paid untrained, teenaged babysitters, that teachers with 100 students per day per child would receive ten dollars an hour per student: 6 x 10 x 100 x 180...wait a minute...that can't be right... If only we had been more attentive in our public school's math class!"

Yeah, we hear that a lot this time of year. It's okay. We forgive you, and we'll take your kids for a couple pennies per hour for the next ten months, and we'll even apply knowledge from our advanced graduate degrees to teach them something. Forgive us if we have to use those pennies to pay off student loans and support our own families, but don't worry, you're not paying for all of that; my second job helps supplement the income, as does my summer job. Hope you had a nice summer!