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To the editor:
As one who has had a long association with Sursum Corda, The Child Care and Learning Center, I feel qualified to respond to the letter written last week by several former clients of the school. No one has asked me to write this letter.
The school is being accused of charging eagessive fees" in thsA'Tt.’.i virtually impossible for a woman to work and keep her child at Sursum Cerda and* come out ahead.” This is said to be true because the charge for a child in the infant toddler program is $310 a month for 22-ten hour days, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
According to my figures, this comes to about $1 40 an hour. The law requires that children at that age be cared for at the rate of one person for four infants. Assuming that all the payment were devoted to paying the individual taking care of four children, that would come to $5.60 an hour for a person performing that work.
How many of the parents of the infants at Sursum Corda would be willing to work eight hours at $5.60 an hour, five days a week, 12 months in a year with no paid vacation, no sick days, taking care of four infants between the ages of six weeks and a year and a half?
Of course the tuition goes for much more than personnel in charge of the children. Diapers and food are provided the babies, who are often brought having been given no breakfast at home. There are the costs of operating a building — rent, heating, insurance, electricity, telephone, maintenance and ground work; there are toys and supplies to be purchased; personnel to cook and administer the program must be hired.
The idea that Sursum Corda is
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