1) Living with 7 people in a 4 bedroom apartment. 2) not much, food banks, handouts, doing science experiments [yep], and (3) medication? LOL I haven’t seen a doctor in over a decade.

It happens really quickly in areas where they instituted vouchers for schooling- private schools that wanted to retain and maintain exclusivitiy just jacked up their tuition rates as to not deal with problems. This is why things like single payer are so important- we need everyone in the game to offset the risk or it…

The problem is we can’t give vouchers because then daycare providers will just jack up their rates to justify voucher use (which a lot of people will just suggest as a panacea to the problem.) It would be better for the government to cover the cost of insurance and incidentals needed or even utilities. (I’ll never…

We have A LOT more professional development mandated by states than previously. After certification in PA, you only get a level 1 (good for 5 years) and still have to take some amount of hours in order to get your level 2 cert which is good for basically ever. Even if you are cert’d, you still are required to…

Right now, as a substitute teacher, I’m lucky to make $800 a month. $2400 a month would be 300% of my income.
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Yeah if your daycare has administrators and administration (now just owner/operators) their salaries are ridiculous, just like every other administrator in education.

Aha. Not for daycare. Maybe for a private K-12 school, but most definitely not daycare. It generally is 10-20% off a month, some employers if you are super lucky, it is 50%, but that is very VERY rare in the industry.

After taxes, I usually took home around $900 a month. That’s working “full time” (when I worked pt, I maybe could get 600 a month if I was lucky.) And what a lot of people don’t realize is that a number of daycares have employees who work only half a day and your half day shift changes all the time. It’s an incredibly…

Also, they don’t want to pay for a teacher and aides to be full time. =/ Classes are also being condensed at all grade levels (I had 35 kindergarteners last year and I noped out of subbing for that ever again), especially as urban districts close buildings and sell them off to charter schools. =[

Yeah after the economy hit everyone hard and good. But most people didn't really start using airbnb until the past few years. I swear there was more goddamn accountability on CouchSurfing.

There's a reason why most rentals want at least a year commitment. You definitely can't rent out your space only once or twice a month and make the money back and it would be a lot more trouble than it is worth.

If they required rental insurance, I guarantee they would have less than 10% of the listings and they would also need to pay city/borough/township fees to operate as a rental unit.

My concern is what kind of “ink” or paint is used for the nail designs. There are lots of 3/5 free nail polishes now because we understand some of the chemicals are a bit toxic- especially something manufactured toward kids who aren’t the best even with polish to keep their hands out of their mouth (you’d be or maybe…

Also that on our social media sites (like livejournal, xanga, AIM, etc.) you only talked to people who were your friends, there was no impetus to be in the public or really have a public stream in the same way and limiting access was more often the norm and standard.

Be my soulmate?

Fuck the NFL.

I’m convinced I could live in their new house and they would never know. GUYS THERE IS A ROOM FOR THEIR LUGGAGE. THEIR LUGGAGE!

Or like Bill Gates thinking he knows education. Being smart in one thing does not equal smartness in all things.

You've clearly never lived in slumlord housing with gross as fuck tap water from your shitty pipes or lived in a fracking area, have you?

Free wifi in our city is a limited time (you have to register before using it) and even coffee shops etc require buying food and drinks before using their network. I’ve definitely seen people asked to leave or to buy something. At local Paneras, they limit wifi use to only 30 minutes during “busy”times. Applications…