Falling apart :(
Well, today it was marked official that my co-teacher is gone for good. I heard that she accepted the termination well, and said that she knew it was coming and planned on changing career paths anyway. I hope she accomplishes what she wanted to.
However, there has been a lot of pressure on me lately. The assistant director has been in the room with me. She has been questioning every move I make, and was trying to make it seem as if it was all my co-teacher's fault. For the things I would normally do with or without my co-teacher, I tried to answer the best way I could. These were little things like why I clean the table and sweep after lunch instead of waiting until the kids are asleep. I do this so it's easier to clean and so the kids aren't trying to eat what's on the floor. Her questioning everything got annoying.
Then came today. The assistant director wanted to get some of her job done (since she's been in a classroom a lot lately)this morning. The numbers were good where we didn't need her. At first, I thought this was a blessing, but it wasn't. One of the other toddler teachers came to work with me. I will say that she changed diapers very quickly. She wasn't doing it right. She was only half cleaning the changing table in between and used different gloves, but never washed her hands or the kids hands in between like we're supposed to do. This irritates me. Another thing that bothered me was that yet a different toddler teacher brought her kids into the big room (excercise room), and then left us over ratio for over a half hour while she stayed in her room doing other things. Then, to top it off, I got yelled at by the two year old teachers when we stated that the big room times were changed at the last meeting. When I told her it was actually my room that got changed because it interferes with our snack time, I wasn't even allowed to finish before I was cut off. One of the teachers said "Listen, you don't know what it's like to be with 14 two year olds all day. They decided to go in the big room anyway. The toddler teacher next to me keeps on me about getting the kid's conferences done, and is persistant on telling me that I now need to do my co-teacher's conferences as well. All of these events almost caused me to break down into tears today. On top of it all, I have had a half hour of overtime both yesturday and today. It seems as if they are demanding a lot of me. What do you think?
Thankfully, I am looking for a different job. I have an info session to go to on Thursday, and applied to a dozen different schools yesturday. I hope that I am actually able to get out on time, otherwise I will have to skip it. Let's see if I have the guts to call the director and tell her that we're over ratio and I have somewhere that I need to be.
However, there has been a lot of pressure on me lately. The assistant director has been in the room with me. She has been questioning every move I make, and was trying to make it seem as if it was all my co-teacher's fault. For the things I would normally do with or without my co-teacher, I tried to answer the best way I could. These were little things like why I clean the table and sweep after lunch instead of waiting until the kids are asleep. I do this so it's easier to clean and so the kids aren't trying to eat what's on the floor. Her questioning everything got annoying.
Then came today. The assistant director wanted to get some of her job done (since she's been in a classroom a lot lately)this morning. The numbers were good where we didn't need her. At first, I thought this was a blessing, but it wasn't. One of the other toddler teachers came to work with me. I will say that she changed diapers very quickly. She wasn't doing it right. She was only half cleaning the changing table in between and used different gloves, but never washed her hands or the kids hands in between like we're supposed to do. This irritates me. Another thing that bothered me was that yet a different toddler teacher brought her kids into the big room (excercise room), and then left us over ratio for over a half hour while she stayed in her room doing other things. Then, to top it off, I got yelled at by the two year old teachers when we stated that the big room times were changed at the last meeting. When I told her it was actually my room that got changed because it interferes with our snack time, I wasn't even allowed to finish before I was cut off. One of the teachers said "Listen, you don't know what it's like to be with 14 two year olds all day. They decided to go in the big room anyway. The toddler teacher next to me keeps on me about getting the kid's conferences done, and is persistant on telling me that I now need to do my co-teacher's conferences as well. All of these events almost caused me to break down into tears today. On top of it all, I have had a half hour of overtime both yesturday and today. It seems as if they are demanding a lot of me. What do you think?
Thankfully, I am looking for a different job. I have an info session to go to on Thursday, and applied to a dozen different schools yesturday. I hope that I am actually able to get out on time, otherwise I will have to skip it. Let's see if I have the guts to call the director and tell her that we're over ratio and I have somewhere that I need to be.
posted by Lacey at 9:22 PM
1 Comments:
Hang in there. Reading these horror stories of daycare make me feel blessed I have someone in their home watching my son.
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