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Sorry you are going through this. I think it is totally unacceptable for one person to be responsible for 26 school age kids, particularly if it involves crossing streets! It sounds like you did everything you possibly could to ensure the children's safety, but ultimately the administration is responsible --they should have assigned another staff member to go with you. I've worked with school-aged kids before and I can assure you that any time we went outside, we were required to have two teachers.
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Best of luck! Update when you can and stay strong
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I am thinking of you! I hope you really stood up for yourself. Don't give up on childcare. You need a better situation. I know you are a great childcare provider. Anyone that could handle 26 kids lie that would have to be. Parents now never think anything is their kids fault so they always wanna jump on adult care provider. It is easier to blame us than it is to make their kids behave and respect authority. Best of luck.Not Clueless anymore
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Let us know how things went today. I really feel for you. I agree with the others that you shouldn't feel like you're not a good childcare provider. You just need to find one that follows the state regulations. I worked at a preschool/childcare (center ran) before I came where I am now, and within just about 6 months of being there I had about convinced myself that I wasn't cut out for childcare. If it wasn't for love of the children, I probably would have quit, thinking I couldn't do the job needed. I was so unhappy there, feeling like I couldn't do anything right. Now that I'm where I am now, and after taking CDA classes and doing a lot of research on regulations, etc, I now know that they expected more than they should have at the other place. The director would leave me alone with a mixed age group, and a lot of times, have me take over the 12-24 month old class, when I had very little experience and no training in that age group and hadn't even been hired for that age group (I was hired for the preschool age group). Then when things didn't go exactly as she wanted, she'd get really stern and tell me she didn't know what she was going to do, if I couldn't even handle a few children (I know now that it was a little bit over ratio for both, a toddler group and for a mixed age group). Since I am where I am now, I have realized that this line of work is exactly where I am at my best. Even when the paychecks are barely enough to survive on, I realize that I wouldn't be this happy at any other line of work, so the lower pay is worth it...most of the time...
I hope you are able to discover how good you really are with your job, even if you have to go somewhere else (that follows the regs) to find out.
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I hope things worked out okay for you today or that at least you stood your ground regarding the ratio regulations. That's far too many children for one adult!
In one post you said you don't think you're cut out for daycare because you can't do anything right. Perhaps it's not that at all. Perhaps it's the place you are working that needs to be changed.Comment
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She'll be coming in to speak with me today. I will definitely stand my ground about what has been going on.Comment
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I hope everything works out for you. That really ****s. I'm glad your going to stand your ground and be strong! Good luck this afternoon.Comment
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How'd it go??
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My boss still has not come in yet. (Totally unprofessional, in my opinion.)
I've lost sleep over this and I haven't gotten so much as a call, email, or visit from her-yet. I'm assuming i've dodged the bullet since if it was urgent she would have spoken to me by now in person. If she doesn't contact me this week i'll go ahead and reach out to her myself to update her about how I am no longer walking that many kids alone.
Since the initial phone call from her, both myself and my co-worker have begun doing the walk together, even though it makes coming back into the room harder. (We share a room with the school so what we usually did before is one person got the kids and the other person set up tables/snack, etc.) I'm happy with my choice and my co-worker agrees its something we should have been doing all along.
I will keep this thread updated and THANK YOU for the support and having my back on this. I DO NOT want to give up childcare, I was just feeling overwhelmed.
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I am sorry to hear that your boss is behaving as she is. I am glad though that you and a co-worker were able to address and fix the issue of being alone during walks.My boss still has not come in yet. (Totally unprofessional, in my opinion.)
I've lost sleep over this and I haven't gotten so much as a call, email, or visit from her-yet. I'm assuming i've dodged the bullet since if it was urgent she would have spoken to me by now in person. If she doesn't contact me this week i'll go ahead and reach out to her myself to update her about how I am no longer walking that many kids alone.
Since the initial phone call from her, both myself and my co-worker have begun doing the walk together, even though it makes coming back into the room harder. (We share a room with the school so what we usually did before is one person got the kids and the other person set up tables/snack, etc.) I'm happy with my choice and my co-worker agrees its something we should have been doing all along.
I will keep this thread updated and THANK YOU for the support and having my back on this. I DO NOT want to give up childcare, I was just feeling overwhelmed.
I do hope things work out for you! You should feel good knowing that you did the right thing though in trying to address this on your own since your boss has not done so. Especially since the issue involves the safety of children.
Please continue to update us when your boss does finally come in.... In the meantime, hang in there!
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Ditto this.I am sorry to hear that your boss is behaving as she is. I am glad though that you and a co-worker were able to address and fix the issue of being alone during walks.
I do hope things work out for you! You should feel good knowing that you did the right thing though in trying to address this on your own since your boss has not done so. Especially since the issue involves the safety of children.
Please continue to update us when your boss does finally come in.... In the meantime, hang in there!
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