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Lying, and inappropriate handling of my 2yo, argumentative and hateful director once her door shuts and no one can hear what she is saying.
My son started his first weeks of school very eager and excited about school. We practiced wearing a backpack, opening his lunch box and his favorite painting. In the past month he has shown fear and a lot of emotions about school. Some examples of these emotions are listed below:
EX:
Says there is monsters at school.
When picked up from school says “bye monsters”.
Points to school logo on his uniform shirt and says "no go to school" or simply "monsters"
When he sees me ironing his school clothes in the morning he begins to cry and say "no school mommy"
He will remove his lunch from his backpack in attempt to unpacks his lunch
Tries to change his shirt into a non uniform shirt after being dressed.
Well, I had enough of this since he was so eager for school when the drop off line assistant had to practically rip my son out of my car to go to school crying for me.
I stopped my car, regrouped from being emotional myself and went inside to check that he was ok. I was stopped by the schools director and told he was fine and that she didn't want him to see me. Being that I am a certified teacher I know that him seeing me would stir up emotions again (I hadn't planned on allowing him to see me) so I left.
I stayed around the area for an hr or so and went back to watch him on the playground hoping to find him playing and enjoying school. I parked far away from the school to be sure he wouldn’t recognize my car. I was relieved to see him playing and happy. I had even sent his father a photo of him saying that our "crying baby was now happy". Then as the teachers began to line their students up on a rope with colorful shapes I had an issue. My son was one of the first children in line. He had 3 friends come up to him in line and they took his shape from him. My sons known defense mechanisms in similar situations is to jump in place holding on to what ever is being taken from him. He did hop and looked to his teacher for help. His lead teacher removed him from the line by his upper arm near his armpit with no explanation to him or redirection to the other children he was put in the end of the line.
The same situation happens again where a child takes the shape from him, the children struggle and he is again placed at the very back of the line. I happened to be recording the entire situation which was 1:43 seconds. I discussed the situation with his dad, my sister, my father and my mother whom all felt the teacher did not act in a loving way and was rather rough on him.
The next day my mom and I went to speak with the director who in a nutshell was very hateful, argumentative and in no way apologetic. If anything she was accusatory about my right to video my child, be on the property. She also thought “that was normal teaching behavior and saw no harm done”.
Some of the specific things she said I had issue with was:
“Parents are not allowed to video or photograph students because of the rights of other students”
-However a week later at the schools pumpkin patch multiple parents and teachers all were using a camera to photograph or video tape their children (possibly capturing other children in their photos) This rule seems to be only apparent when it is used to protect a teacher or the school against wrongful actions towards a child, not in protection of the children.
“I see nothing wrong with this and we as preschool teachers touch children often”
-Moving a child, a 2 year old, with that much force is never necessary. Hudson did not refuse to let go and could have easily asked my son to grab her hand for her to lead him to a different place in line.
“Ive seen your son in the hall and he sometimes has trouble walking in line without bouncing”.
Regardless, of my sons ability or inability to walk in a strait line does not give anyone permission to touch him in that manner.
The director was very argumentative in the way she responded to myself and my mother. It didn’t matter what we were saying she always had an argumentative response.
“We pay good money for my son to be treated kindly”
Directors Response “So does everyone else”
“My daughter and I are both Educators”, before my mother can finish her statement.
“So am I”
“There was no discussion with my child about why he was being removed”
“How do you know his teacher didn’t discuss it, its too far away, I think it looks like she does”
I think that the teacher should have assed the situation before removing my son to the back of the line
“Maybe he is the caboose. We give our children jobs and that’s probably what happened”
In addition to being argumentative she was also unprofessional.
“We teacher preschool we want to play with the kids, our past supervisor thought we needed to be in ballet flats and dress pants every day, for goodness sake we clean up poop all day” “(that was Rev. Rusti by the way”)
As a parent when you see a director of a school discuss past leaders, especially those who were the founding Reverend at Wildwood it seems to be she has an issue with keeping the integrity of your church and school above her own personal viewpoints.
Once the teacher was brought into the room the mood calmed, she was very apologetic, kind and at the same time upset that we were concerned for Hudson’s physical and mental safety at the school. She agreed she should have handled the situation in a different way and that it wouldn’t happen again. She handled the situation very well, very professionally.
On Tuesday 11/4/14 I arrived to pick up my son before car rider line began. This was something the teacher suggested in hopes it would help him know as soon as lunch is over I am coming to get him. I stopped by the office to get the blue pass, I was stopped by the director and said they were "double checking every students records to make sure everything was signed and in its place". She said I had forgotten to sign something and wanted to get it signed today. When she showed me the liability section and handed me a pen I told her that I had intentionally not signed the liability release for the school. She then said that legally they must have every parents signature in order for the child to go to school there and that if I chose not to that my son could not come back to school. When I told her I didn't agree with the liability release and in fact the teacher and school should be liable for his safety she told me that the release stops me from being able to sue for instances such as "if he is hurt on broken playground equipment, harm done by a fire or something catastrophic and for something simple like a little scratch”. I informed her I didn’t feel comfortable signing it without doing my own personal research on the matter and would speak with my attorney to get more info about this. She replied I understand and that another parent who also had issue with this liability waiver was an attorney and did sign it with the amendment that "gross negligence" wasn't present. She then said “I’m saying this, but I’m not saying this, anyone can sue anyone so this is just a formality”
I’ve spent hours on the internet and making phone calls to see if I am in fact going to be forced to sign this or remove my child from the school. I have spoken with Allison Williams with Depart of Family Protective Services who informed me that this liability waiver was not a requirement and was likely to be an “in house policy”. She also said that it is abnormal since all schools are required to provide X amount of in liability for each child that is in attendance.
I’ve spoken with several of my friends who have children in preschools from Primrose, to Stone Bridge to KidsRKids. All different types of preschool/daycares all of them said they one would never have signed the form and because of the school requesting a form like this would have chosen another school and two their school only health waiver was the release to treat waiver.
The schools waiver seems to be an extra way to protect themselves from any liability. I feel as a school, protecting your students first would in fact be your best way to protect yourselves.
Even though all of this situation began with the fault of the teacher, I feel the situation has escalated so quickly and beyond repair because of the director. As a director I would hope that she would want to be a supportive figure of not only her staff but for also the children and their parents. My trust in Wildwoods ability to be a professional, positive experience for my son and my family is destroyed because of one bad attitude of one person. Unfortunately, the school is a business as well as a school and should be ran in that way. Customer service is a must, Administrative support of the staff is a must, however with the director I feel she is a cancer to your school and in turn will burn bridges with parents, staff or community members who remotely challenge her any way.