I have been thinking about this all last night and all day today. I work in childcare and what i witnessed yesterday when I picked my friend's daughter up from daycare after she became ill just blew me away! The children are in the Prep room. The teacher was using flash cards with letters on them. My friend's daughter was 4 just 2 weeks ago and has just moved through to this room. The Prep teacher was asking a little boy who has also not long turned 4 what the letter was. It was the letter G and he was saying random letters and they were all wrong. The first attempt, the teacher told him no try again in a calm voice. the second attempt the teacher told him to think about it in a quite abrupt manner. The third attempt she raised her voice, told him to go play and that he does not deserve a sticker until he learns his letters! He went to home corner and started to cry, and she simply moved on to the next child then realised I was standing there. She asked who I was there for and I told her but she showed no remorse and did not comfort the child in the time I was there. He was still crying for the whole time she showed me where everything was and checked my ID and everything! Should I report this? I've worked in childcare for a long time and we are not taught to treat children in that way. Sure we are taught to introduce them to letters and phonics, but we don't force them to learn at that age, that's what Prep and Grade 1 are for! Any advice on whether I should just leave it be, tell my friend, or report the teacher? These kids are 3.5 - 5 years so still very young.
hi hun if i were u i would report this childcare worker, if she is so abrupt with 1 child how is she when she is really annoyed with a child, this poor little boy should of been consoled not left to will inside himself, these people start our children off for school,what example is she showing him?no wonder children are scared of prep(kindergarten), tell your friend because if ever she sees this behaviour from the carer and she asks u if u have noticed anything at least u have told her the truth now.....good luck keep us informed:) louise
Hi
REPORT HER she has no right to be with children if she is taking her frustration out on the kids
If that was my child I would want someone to report her so I knew and could deal with her in a appropriate manner.
When my son and daughter went to care i went into my daughters room and her bag was behind the door so that was where I was standing when a teacher came in dragging another child pushed him down on the carpet and abused the crap out of him. Poor kid was terrified. I stepped out from behind the door and she said "oh" i went straight out to the front desk reported her and withdrew my children that minute. Said at least now I know why my son does not want to come here. You see he had been crying every time i dropped him off and seemed distressed of a afternoon but they said that he was fine during the day.
I believed them
What if he was being treated like this when i wasn't there
A few of my friends that I told withdrew their kids as well as they were showing the same behaviours as my son.
This was in a child care centre with a high accreditaion too. Means nothing to some people.
Look at the one where the children were being molested for the lack of someone reporting what they saw. They didn't whistle blow til they left the centre...Look at all the heartache they could have prevented if they stood up for what is right
SO all i can say is REPORT REPORT as fast as you can before she does some more serious damage to one of our babies.
Luv Deb
As soon as possible. That person should not be teaching anyone. At 4 they don't recognize the letters anyway, what is she thinking? I reported a substitute teacher for not letting my child finish her lunch and what you saw was much worse. That teacher needs to be reprimanded and I feel for you that your child needs to be in that room. I would even consider moving your child if the teacher is not moved...
REPORT IT POINT BLANK .. parents leave their children in childcare cause they have to they dont leave their children there to be told off and sent to a corner for not knowing a damm letter thats disgusting behavour of an adult thats ment to be LOOKING after your child ,,this poor boy he might start to have anxietys about going there ,,, all children learn at differnt ages and levels and should not be forced or expected to know at that age either grrrrrrrrrrrrr,, thats not the way to teach a child anything , i want to give that poor boy a hugg and put the teacher in the corner
yup just like everyone else says REPORT IT. The problem with this sort of behaviour is the damaging effects it can have on kids not only in the short term but also later in life. As a parent I'd want this reported and I'd want to know if it was my child.
If i ever thought anyone was doing this to one of my own children i would be extremly upset. The fact that this women showed no remorse what-so-ever upsets me even more.
The question is "what else does she do?????" ................... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
as many mothers would be thinking as reading this would be WHAT THE....???? NO REPORT IT i would never show any remorse if i saw or found out that my 5 year old was treated like that at school. REPORT IT
Report it to the person in charge, then report it to the owner, and who ever else you can report that witch to! Definately tell the mother so she can fix the damage the teacher has caused. This woman should not be teaching children and needs to be fired.
I worked in child care and I the things I saw turned me off. I reported it immediately and the carer was fired. Its not fair to treat any child like that. Poor little mite!
Unfortunately my daughter has to attend childcare while I work because my family and friends who used to look after her have moved town and there is no one else left who isn't already working who can care for her. If this happened in her daycare I would want to know about and would want the person reported. I don't see what goes on in the classroom and hardly ever see the staff as one of them works the same hours I do so by the time I've dropped her off her teacher isn't there yet, and she has left to get her own children by the time I get back. The assistant can't work late because of family commitments so I only see her once a week when she's on an early start. If that happened and someone witnessed it I would want to be told. But my daughter is happy to go to daycare so I think we're safe. She's always telling me what news she will be telling her teachers that day so she obviously likes them. I would want to report it, but as has been stated the teacher (no excuse) might have been having an off day.
Hi there,perhaps you could quizz your friend on how she finds the staff normally before making a decision.Sometimes staff do have bad days....this is no excuse however it would be a shame for this person to get a black mark for a one off incident.May be this child is usually hard to get along with?again no excuse but to me there are so many variables that it would be difficult to make the right decision.Maybe if your friend says that this particular staff member is quite abrupt and cross with the children then you could say something to the supervisor.Regards Merle
Hi Merle
Sorry but there is no excuse for taking your frustration out on the child at all.
What if the child has a learning difficulty and has problems learning
She needs to be reported so that if need be she can be retrained and never do it to another child
If that was my childs care teacher I would be out for blood.
It has happened in 2 childcare centres both with very high accreditations with my son.
The first time it was not him that I know of as I was there
The second time I let them know that my daughter had caught scabies from school as a courtesy
After I left they gowned up with gloves masks and everything and stripped my child and checked every mark on his body then rung me and said he had scabies I knew for a fact he didn't as he had been given the all clear by my doctor
I took him down to the doctors once again after i had picked him up and he confirmed that no scabies were present on him but a few mosquito bites.
When i picked him up he was terrified and refused to go back.
I took him to my mums and went back to the day care centre for a report on what had gone on and to throw the doctors certificate at them
This is when i found out partially what had gone on. They said they had just checked him over.
As i left two of the other mothers came over to me and told me the truth on what they had seen.
This was in a centre where they were not supposed to touch the children let alone strip them and search them over.
Needless to say they lost the accreditation over what they had done.
But the owner of the centre refused to apologise and felt his staff had done right and just opened up under another name.
Too many centres are getting away with this because the babies are too young to tell them what goes on.
All incidents like this need to be reported so they can be addressed
Blue cards are a waste of time so someone needs to stand up for our children regardless
How would you feel if it was Breanna that was yelled at by her care teacher or some stranger.
If they are yelling at them for not knowing a letter what else are they doing?
Sorry My friends and i have had some very bad experiences with child care centres.
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all children learn at differnt ages and levels and should not be forced or expected to know at that age either grrrrrrrrrrrrr,, thats not the way to teach a child anything , i want to give that poor boy a hugg and put the teacher in the corner
Lexi xxx
