04-15-2015, 02:54 PM
Racer X wrote:
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[quote=Racer X]
That is EXACTLY why the $15 minimum wage is going to SCREW UP some things like early childhood education. Lead teachers with degrees and decades of experience will be making just a few bucks more than some kid with a still drying high school diploma.
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Not sure why you think that. In Seattle the starting pay for new teachers with BAs now is around $24/hour. That's 60% more than $15/hour, which is what minimum wage will be eventually. And by then the teachers will make more...
You misunderstood. ECE is preschool or earlier. If you haven't reached and motivated the kid by @3rd grade, that kid will be far worse off, and harder to reach each year they get older.
The crappy thing is that for 1/10th of what it costs to house an inmate for a year, you could spend an extra grand a year per kid, and prevent them from being an inmate at all. Countless studies have been done for decades.
But they pay ECE educators crap, as well as most educators to a lesser degree. Those that do it well, are doing it out of passion. Sure isn't any money in it. Almost no incentive to do a thankless job other than the smiling kids every day.
Happy to share more, but it will have to be through PMs.
Daycare and preschool workers (plus home health care workers and other types of service providers) can only benefit from increases to the minimum wage base, because many of them are paid at or near that base. Daycare workers do not need advanced degrees or decades of experience. They need training, certification, licensing and careful oversight by local agencies.
Seattle has passed universal preschool into law after voters approved overwhelmingly. Hopefully many cities will follow. I agree with you completely on the need for this.
http://www.seattle.gov/council/issues/Pr...fault.html