"Babysit" as transitive, teach, graduate

[Fritz Juengling]

I used to babysit children back in the 70's.  This usage does not bother me
at all.
I have heard that the British have a problem with "I teach school."  Is
anyone else bothered by this?
Here's one that just kills me.  I heard Melissa Bledsoe (isn't she one of the
Cosby girls?) say "I graduated college."  ON the info sheet from the Virginia
Military Institute that my son received,  it said something like this, "When
you graduate highschool."
Since when does one 'graduate highschool/college'?  Does this bother anyone?
Fritz


> Just when did "babysit" become a transitive verb? When I grew up in the
> 50s and when we had our own children in the 70s, you would have someone
> babysit FOR your children. Now you babysit children. Where and when did
> this start?
>