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To: epicure who wrote (66322)	12/12/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Let's face it X, working mothers aren't real mothers after all. They think they are real mothers, but the real mother of their kids is Nurse Cratchet, who feeds them lobotomy cookies for lunch.

To: epicure who wrote (66322)	12/12/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The things you say volunteers do in your area, we have paid teachers to do here, for the most part. In our county, we've got teachers for the GT program, assistant teachers to bring down the student-teacher ratio, bus drivers for the field trips, etc. Libraries aren't "discretionary" here. Yes, volunteers run the fund-raisers, but I'd rather give money directly to the PTA than buy stuff like giftwrap that costs three times what it costs at Walmart or Costco, or any of the other junk the PTA has the children sell. The parents usually buy the stuff, anyway. And of course working parents are involved in volunteer activities, to the best of my knowledge the men who are Boy Scout leaders all have jobs, don't they? They certainly are here.

To: epicure who wrote (66322)	12/13/1999 3:15:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

What does this imply about the value of these volunteer services. The school is not willing to pay a fair market wage, so people know exactly how much their services are worth -- nothing. I did the economics of a huge book sale run by volunteers. A wonderful sale that cleared $10,000 and absorbed about 2000 human hours of volunteer work. I bought a few hundred books for $200 and contributed $10 dollars to the Friends of the Library. My consulting fee is a little above $5/hr. And it was deductible. I did much more for the FoL by spending time looking and buying than stacking and hauling the same amount of time. I bought a nice (slightly foxed) set of Newman's mathematics for $6 (mostly true) and a complete set of Great Books of WW for $50 (unfortunately, a quick perusal shows that most of them are untrue). Euclid's good.