Her Daughter’s Daycare Teacher Issued A Verbal Warning After She Refused To Make Her Daughter Finish Cleaning Up Before Leaving At The End Of The Day
This woman’s 2-year-old daughter has been attending a home daycare for a couple of months now. And she believes that her daughter’s teacher, Sasha, is really great.
The only thing she took an issue with, though, was how long it took to actually complete the pick-up process.
She realized that whenever she arrived to take her daughter home, Sasha would expect her daughter to finish cleaning up any toys she had been playing with.
Now, she really does not think teaching kids responsibility for their own items is a bad thing.
“I am normally all for my daughter cleaning her own messes,” she said.
But, Sasha making her daughter clean every time she shows up at daycare just delays her actually heading out the door and traveling home to make their plans.
So, once she realized this kept happening, she decided to start texting Sasha when she was a few minutes away.
That way, she could ask the teacher to begin getting her daughter ready to leave. And at first, that actually worked out quite well.
When she arrived, her daughter would be already wearing a jacket and simply reading a book– which is much easier to put away as opposed to a massive Duplo project.
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Earlier this week, though, things hit the fan again. On Tuesday, she had a pretty crazy day and was in a big rush to leave the daycare.
Apparently, she and her daughter just had a lot to get done that day, and she was already running behind schedule after encountering some car trouble.
But, once she arrived at the daycare, her daughter and some other kids were in the midst of cleaning up a huge mess that she simply did not have time for. So, she just told her daughter to grab her coat because they had to go.
At that point, though, her daughter’s teacher Sasha interjected and claimed her daughter needed to finish up her part of the mess first before leaving.
“And I said any other day, sure. But I am running late, and we cannot miss this appointment,” she recalled.
Still, Sasha did not understand that and instead tried to argue with her about how the children needed to learn responsibility.
She really did not have time to defend her decision, though, so she just flat-out told Sasha, “no.” Then, she grabbed her daughter, put on her coat, and left the daycare.
Anyway, the rest of the afternoon was obviously quite chaotic. So, she did not have a chance to check her texts until later on.
And when she did, she found a pretty disgruntled message from Sasha. In the text, her daughter’s teacher claimed that any “poor planning” on her part was not an excuse to break the rules.
“But I pointed out this is not in the contract, and I can bring my child home whenever I want,” she vented.
Still, she wound up getting accused of undermining Sasha’s authority. She was also given a verbal warning, which she thinks is completely ridiculous.
Regardless of how she personally feels about the whole situation, though, she has still been left wondering whether telling her daughter’s daycare teacher that her daughter wouldn’t finish cleaning up was the wrong thing to do.
Do you agree that kids need to learn to take responsibility for their own messes? At the same time, is it understandable that life happens, and sometimes that isn’t realistic for busy parents? Did the teacher have a right to issue her a verbal warning? How would you reconcile this situation?
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