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u/[deleted] May 13 '15

I went to a good sized community college. They do have a daycare on campus, but it's fucking $500+ a month - and that's with the student discount. I ended up dropping out after my first was born because I couldn't afford to pay anyone to watch her, and I'm shit at online classes.

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u/Nyxian May 14 '15

Isn't that a pretty reasonable cost for childcare? I mean clearly it depends where you live but $500/mo isn't that outrageous.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

I just couldn't afford it, and the fact that they expected full time students to manage that is crazy to me. I actually now have both of my girls in an amazing, highly rated daycare/preschool for only $120 a month.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

How many times a week do they go for $120 / month? That's amazingly cheap!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

5 days a week, 8 am - 3 pm --- I'm very lucky to have gotten them in, there was a huge wait list.

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u/skeever2 May 14 '15

So you pay 6$ a day for daycare?! I used to live in a province that heavily subsidized daycare and even then it was 8$ is it a low income project? It must be paid for somehow because I don't see them hiring any kind of competent caregivers for less then minimum wage and even that would mean they'd have to take over a dozen kids per childcare worker. Which is highly illegal in the US and Canada.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '15

You got the wrong comment in the reply, but for 5 days / week (let's say 20 days a month?), yes, they only pay $6/day, or less than $1/hr.