I don’t remember many individual moments from 90s games but remember Andre Wadsworth destroying us like no defender I’ve ever seen
How much do you guys pay for pre-school? I feel like I am getting fucked by Big Pre. These people must be billionaires.
I’ve done a few franchise loans for ground ups. The cost to build out (whether group up or leasehold improvements) and overhead (insurances and staffing mainly) for these are insane. Money is good but it’s certainly not passive income and you need deep pockets to even get started.
I'm paying 50k a year for two kids. There's gotta be at least a hundred kids in that preschool. And they have four locations. They rent out space in churches and synagogues, i can't imagine rent is crazy. These people are making millions. Nice racket.
Can only speak to the franchises so don’t know about the spaces yours are renting. In the franchise world they have hands down the highest start up costs. We have started pricing daycare and depending on how many days your two go that seems pretty in line. Add in your in Chicago seems about right.
When our kids were young, we looked at starting a daycare with my wife and her three sisters working it. Between them, they had degrees in early childhood education and nursing, and licensing wasn’t a problem. Insurance costs and staffing requirements killed it. If you take kids under 2, the required ratio of staff to child cut into any profit. The most basic insurance was more that all four of our families carried on our home/umbrella combined.
A lady I used to work with’s husband owned a daycare and he’s in prison and scheduled to be deported back to the UK after this sentence because he raped children
My oldest will start Pre-K this fall through the city (Twinsburg) and it’s $2,600 or so. It’s 5 days a week but only a half day, so he’s going to stay at his daycare for the morning. The daycare costs drops to around $700 for the month with him being only half day. All in all this saves us like $500 a month with him in the city Pre-K and we are very excited. Having had 2 kids in daycare the last year has been more than our mortgage payment.
I think I mentioned this before, but when our boys were younger we never considered day care because it would’ve been somewhere around 3-4k per month. We ended up hiring a fully time nanny and pay her 50k per year. In addition to watching the kids, she cleans the house, does dishes, laundry, runs the boys around, etc. if we were gonna spend the money anyway, it was the best deal.
Four. Three are in school full-time. The youngest starts pre-school in the Fall. We're giving her a raise to 55k effective July 1st. She's only 20, so she appreciates her compensation and schedule.
My mom, my sister, and my mother and law have never charged me a dollar for child care. Pre-school wasn’t bad don’t remember the cost they each went one year.
It’s such a huge benefit. We live 3 country blocks from my parents and my sister. It’s been such a huge asset to us. My mom has no hobbies other than my two kids. That’s what she enjoys and asks for them all the time.
Between getting the kids out of private school and probably only needing 1-2 more years of the nanny, I'm very excited to see how my wife reallocates that money.
We had a nanny for the first year and a half with our first kid and then switched him over to the daycare. Thankfully, we only have/had like a 1 year overlap where both are in daycare full time, that comes to an end in August. We actually have a teacher at their daycare that has become quite close to us and the boys, shes our go-to for watching the boys for nearly anything because our families suck. She starts her real teaching job this fall and will be off in the summers, she has already been angling to have us hire her for the summer to watch the boys. Since we both work from home, we need to figure out where she would watch them all day, but we would love to hire her since she would be so much cheaper.
I'm in the same awesome limbo stage right now where my oldest is now going to school full time but my youngest is not yet going to school. So I'm still paying my nanny 50k but I'm also paying 25k for preschool tuition. How do people actually afford this? My nanny is amazing and basically a part of my family right now so I'm very sad that she's leaving us, but 75k for two kids is wild. It's also wild that I paid the same amount for my nanny to look after 2 kids as it costs for my 2 kids to go to pre-school. My nanny does so much for us and my kids. I'm sure their preschool teachers are great as well, but that's 2 teachers with 15-18 kids. The math aint mathing. I felt this, I truly did
Maybe it's just me because I live in a very affluent suburb, but almost everyone I know has a nanny and/or kids in private school. I just truly don't understand how everyone can afford it. Like there has to be at least a few families without 75k+ to spare for childcare. My college tuition my freshman year was 5.5k. How does it cost 4x less to learn Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering than it does to learn how to play with blocks? I understand inflation, but even with inflation that 5.5k is still less than 10k adjusted. What is happeing here? We're getting fucked.
First world problems to be sure. What I've learned is a lot of people in those situations have generational wealth. I'm a first generation dumb sales person that does well enough, but I ain't even close to some of the people we hang with. My son's best friend at school is the son of Jay Kokrak, who plays on the LIV Golf Tour. He and I are not in the same stratosphere.
We send our kids to private school. That wasn’t initially our plan until it came time for Pre-K decision making. We were referred over and said it’s the best option out there as the daycare is fine but not very formal. My daughter (4) was the youngest in her Pre K class last year which was full time school M-F. We were questioning if it was the right move given her age but she excelled. She is about 2 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds soaking wet but she is the most vocal kid in her class. She’s not to be fucked with at school or home… Next year it will be 2nd grade and Kindergarten so tuition is reduced with no Pre K. I can’t complain at all on the price given the quality of the school and education they get. It’s absolutely amazing and a super close community. For the summer we have a nanny that works 8-4pm Monday through Thursday. She primarily is a driver in the mornings for all the activities and then takes them to our club’s pool in the afternoon. Awesome gal that we were lucky to find. She is a special education teacher that loves to nanny in the summer.
Need Herb to come in and get the thread back on track. Did you know in 1891 Ohio State scored 7 points or more in every game but two. After every game the team would carry a pig down high street and drank moonshine until the sun set. After the setting of the sun the team would dual with swords. The resulting injuries in the duals is the reason for being shut out in the two games.
The costs never go down. When my daughters were looking at undergrad in 2023-2024, tuition/board at Notre Dame or Case Western was over $90k at each. They are both pre-med, so I told them it makes no sense and pick a state school. Med school will be different. Herb Jr’s tuition at Moeller for high school is $18,500. The girls have partial scholarships at UC, which is $15,000 a piece for in-state without that. We’re clocking in at $40,000+ a year with fees, activities, etc.
My wife and I are the same, neither set of parents had a college degree. We both paid our own schooling, bought our home, etc. with no help. The Summer after my freshman year in undergrad I was a baseball counselor at a sleep away camp for very affluent Jewish kids from NYC. We had no baseball activities on parents’ day because we used our baseball fields to land helicopters. One of the kids in my bunk had a dad who founded Nutrisystems. Another was manager for Bon Jovi. I had never seen that kind of wealth.
Trivia Time, Tressel Edition Ohio State was 96-6 under Tressel when it allowed fewer than 24 points. What are the losses? Ohio State was 96-7 under Tressel when it rushed for more than 125 yards. What are the losses? The largest comeback victory in the Tressel era was 11 points, which game? I won’t be back until after 5:00 to confirm answers.
Penn State twice 2009 USC Wisconsin 2003 Assume last 2 are 2001 or 2004, don’t even remember who we lost to those years No clue on rushing besides 2007 LSU. I’ll guess 2008 Texas and 2007 Illinois bc of Beanie