The poster calculated the rate at $10 per hour per student for each 8 hour day = $80 per kid per day.
The poster’s math is correct.
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Ah. Poster needs a touch-up: $10/kid/hour x 8hrs/day. 
Obviously, it’s been a long time since I needed a babysitter. When I was babysitting $1/hour was a good rate. 
ETA: I totally agree that we egregiously undervalue teachers and applaud the corrected math.
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When I was hiring babysitters it was a set rate - so I didn’t pay twice as much for two kids.
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My son’s high school gym teacher made $188k per year.
I made $0.25/hr, double after midnight. Nowadays my s pays $20+/hr.
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Yes, it’s $20/hour in our area.
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Finished quilt #3 of my empty nest era. Surprised DD’19 with it last weekend. Pretty easy to piece because that whole section in the middle is a panel. The trick was the forest themed hand quilting. 3rd picture is her cat checking it out!
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1000 days ago H persuaded me to start learning German. He had just started learning Spanish on Babble, but heard about Duolingo during an icebreaker for a school training session. So we started together.
Up until that point, I resisted learning languages. I was not good at French at school. Reading/writing was OK. Listening/speaking OTOH… But I wanted to learn a little before our big trip to Austria. Little did I know I would find a new hobby. I LOVE learning German, and last year after maxing out Duolingo’s German, I started dabbling in French. A couple of months ago I started doing the French module as a German native. That’s been fun!
Sometimes I get frustrated at my progress. I doubt I’ll ever be able to speak fluently without moving there, or having someone to talk to regularly. But, I have learned so much! I listen to German podcasts every day while running, mostly for German learners, but a couple of months ago I started a couple health & fitness podcasts for real Germans and I can understand most of what they’re saying. I’m starting a new travel/adventure one next week. I am excited.
Who knew? You’re never too old to discover a new hobby!
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I’m on 400 days of Spanish. I supplement Duolingo with Pimsleur (more travel oriented vocabulary) and listening to Dreaming Spanish videos - they have them at every level from superbeginner to advanced. They have Spanish speakers from various countries in South America as well as Spain so you can be exposed to different accents and lots of different content - everything from how to survive a tsunami, to what I wear to the beach, to cooking disasters to what to see in Barcelona.
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A few shots from my walk yesterday. I was looking for spring bloom, which is just starting, but there’s always something to see.
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That’s great! I’ve also branched out a lot as well. Duolingo isn’t going to get you there all itself. It’s great IMO for absolute beginners, and I think the repetition is perfect for me and memorizing vocab.
But I also use the Seedling app, mostly for new vocab in flashcard style. I’ve watched a lot of videos by various people - Easy German is the GOAT. (They have Easy Spanish and a ton of other ones) But with my learning podcasts, I print out and translate the transcripts. Any new vocab, I look up on the Seedling app and hope they have a sentence with it. Their flashcard words/sentences they have real people reading them, so that’s nice. I also write a page in a journal every day. A full page in German, and then a super baby paragraph in another French journal. I was reading kids books. The goethe institute used to have a free library, but their app stopped working. Seems to be universal. For Mother’s Day though, I might buy myself a couple of youth literature books. I’m reading one now in English and looked up on Amazon that they have it in German.
So when I get discouraged - especially with my speech. I am also a member of the Easy German group, so I try to twice/month do their video chats where you talk to other learners all over the world. That is pretty wild, but I hate talking on Zoom in English, let alone German! So it’s hard to make myself go… Anyway, I remind myself that 3 years ago I knew NOTHING! Maybe Nein and Auf Wiedersehen and Gesundheit…I’ve come a long way. I try to remind myself of that.
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That’s so interesting! I can make myself understood in Spanish but I would love to perfect my ability --well, at least get farther along. Suggestions?
I think I’ll start a thread later since my query has nothing to do with shared photos!
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Another spring break completed with my daughter. The beach, the light show, and a candlelight concert. I’m so glad (and lucky) that she chooses to spend her spring break with me.
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weather is staying nice and more flowers have opened since the previous picture posted of this tree.
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This is Stumpy, a Yoshino cherry tree along the Tidal Basin in DC. Parts of the Tidal Basin are going to replaced over the next year because of tidal flooding that has caused the basin wall to sink five feet. Stumpy is among a group of trees that get flooded twice daily and will be removed after blooming this spring.
Stumpy has elicited a very emotional reaction around here, with people waiting in line to take selfies with the tree. We used to bring the guys down to the Tidal Basin every year, starting when S1 was an infant. Happy memories!
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