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Wow, I can't imagine saying I wouldn't let a man change my kids diaper. We have men that work with our young kids at church, in fact it's encouraged. For the children's church, they ask for couples to volunteer, so normally it's taught by a husband/wife team.
I looked into several programs that would have helped pay for my college costs, for people wanting to become teachers. To qualify, I would have to want to either teach math or science (which I don't) or be willing to teach in inner city schools.
Forgive me, but I don't want to teach in an inner city school. For one thing, it would put me so far away from my own children, if they needed something and it was an emergency, I couldn't very well get to them quickly. For another, I don't want to deal with the traffic and the long drives. Thirdly, and most important, my husband said he woulnd't allow me to work in one of those schools unless I agreed to wear a bullet proof vest. They sound way too uncomfortable to wear all day.
And he's coming at it from a position of having to go into those schools often as a paramedic and patch up bullet and knife wounds, so one can understand why he wouldn't want his wife in that environment.
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Lemme see... A typical daycare worker makes less in wages&benefits than a fastfood chain worker. With no way to increase earnings unless the daycare manager quits, is fired, or dies -- and the owner then decides that the worker is qualified to run a business. Yep, just what an aspiring breadwinner wants as a career.
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aspectre, the guy also has to be qualified to be a daycare manager by state law. The qualifications for just being a daycare provider are a lot different than being the manager of daycare facility. I think here the person must have a bachelor's degree in early childhood development. I'd have to look it up, but I used to be on the review board for the daycare my daughter goes to. When the manager quit (she was moving to Seattle) we ended up having to close the daycare because we couldn't find anyone qualified and willing to take the job. Happy ending to the story though...the woman we wanted to take over management (originally the asst manager who was qualified but unwilling) agreed at the last minute because ownership of the daycare facility changed hands. She still manages it and is better even than the one who left.
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The difficulties associated with teaching in inner-city schools are exactly why they have to offer incentive programs to get people to work there. I hope you don't feel bad or defensive about the choice you're making not to do so, Belle -- it's just an incentive, and you certainly shouldn't feel forced to take it if it isn't what you want for your life right now.
I can see where the incentive might be sufficient for someone who doesn't have small children dependent on them, or is otherwise more predisposed to take the risk. It isn't right for your life, though, and that is (should be) a perfectly reasonable and respectable decision to make.
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some of the rural schools that are in desperate need of good teachers are within easy driving distance of me, and I would certainly be willing to take a job there. They have some of the same problems the inner city schools do, the low test scores, poor parental involvement, etc. Just not the risk to life and limb.
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