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I was a part-time employee at a preschool for 3 years. My daughter began attending preschool there part-time when she was 3 years old. I paid a tuition for her at a discounted rate. She started showing signs of ADHD during her pre-k year. She had problems sitting down during group times. She was able to sit and do paperwork if she was at a table by herself.
She was moved to the “kindergarten” class in July of 2010. She continued to have attention problems. After a few months of evaluations by doctors, she was put on medication for ADHD. She was able to focus and sit and be undisruptive. The medication caused her to develop anxiety. She did not want to sit among the other children during group time or eat lunch with the other children. She would sit in a chair away from the group, but was still involved.
During this time, the school cut the part-time program. The Director (my boss) informed me that she would not hold a spot for my daughter because they did not have a part-time program. The school has a 24 student to 2 teacher ratio. If her class had 24 students in it, she would have to be moved to another class that had less than 24. She was 5 at the time and was in a “kindergarten” class with 3, 4, and 5 year olds. I didn’t understand why a class that was supposed to be kindergarten had such young children in it.
This started to become a problem when my daughter developed anxiety. She was uncomfortable around children that she didn’t know. When the school would try to move her to another class, she would cry or say that she did not want to go. Sometimes it would take a couple of different directors to convince her to move. If they got her to move, she sat alone and hid. She was 6 and being moved to 4 year old (pre-k) classes. I requested that my daughter not be moved anymore. Her teacher’s and doctor’s felt that this was making the anxiety much harder for her to overcome.
I spoke with the Assistant Director and she stated that because the school no longer had a part-time program, the Executive Director would not lower the class to 23 full-time children so that my daughter could have the 24th spot (a spot becomes available for new students every few weeks) and no longer be moved around. I was very unhappy. My intention was to be able to keep her enrolled at the preschool and work with her doctor’s to overcome the anxiety so that she could transition to 1st grade at a public school easier.
After I expressed my unhappiness to the Assistant Director, the Executive Director called me into her office and told me that she could no longer accommodate my daughter. She stated that her reason was because of my daughter’s behavior. She stated that I needed to find a different school for her to attend.
My feelings are that she didn’t want to have to go through the problem everyday of having to move my daughter to different classrooms once her class was full. She did not want to lose out on the tuition of a full-time spot to save a place for my daughter. I am trying to find out weather or not the Director has broken any rules by doing this. I feel that if she has, she should be held accountable for it so that she can’t do this to another child. I am not “sue happy”. I just want her to be told by licensing that she is not allowed to do that. If anyone has any advice, please let me know.
Thanks.:confused:
She was moved to the “kindergarten” class in July of 2010. She continued to have attention problems. After a few months of evaluations by doctors, she was put on medication for ADHD. She was able to focus and sit and be undisruptive. The medication caused her to develop anxiety. She did not want to sit among the other children during group time or eat lunch with the other children. She would sit in a chair away from the group, but was still involved.
During this time, the school cut the part-time program. The Director (my boss) informed me that she would not hold a spot for my daughter because they did not have a part-time program. The school has a 24 student to 2 teacher ratio. If her class had 24 students in it, she would have to be moved to another class that had less than 24. She was 5 at the time and was in a “kindergarten” class with 3, 4, and 5 year olds. I didn’t understand why a class that was supposed to be kindergarten had such young children in it.
This started to become a problem when my daughter developed anxiety. She was uncomfortable around children that she didn’t know. When the school would try to move her to another class, she would cry or say that she did not want to go. Sometimes it would take a couple of different directors to convince her to move. If they got her to move, she sat alone and hid. She was 6 and being moved to 4 year old (pre-k) classes. I requested that my daughter not be moved anymore. Her teacher’s and doctor’s felt that this was making the anxiety much harder for her to overcome.
I spoke with the Assistant Director and she stated that because the school no longer had a part-time program, the Executive Director would not lower the class to 23 full-time children so that my daughter could have the 24th spot (a spot becomes available for new students every few weeks) and no longer be moved around. I was very unhappy. My intention was to be able to keep her enrolled at the preschool and work with her doctor’s to overcome the anxiety so that she could transition to 1st grade at a public school easier.
After I expressed my unhappiness to the Assistant Director, the Executive Director called me into her office and told me that she could no longer accommodate my daughter. She stated that her reason was because of my daughter’s behavior. She stated that I needed to find a different school for her to attend.
My feelings are that she didn’t want to have to go through the problem everyday of having to move my daughter to different classrooms once her class was full. She did not want to lose out on the tuition of a full-time spot to save a place for my daughter. I am trying to find out weather or not the Director has broken any rules by doing this. I feel that if she has, she should be held accountable for it so that she can’t do this to another child. I am not “sue happy”. I just want her to be told by licensing that she is not allowed to do that. If anyone has any advice, please let me know.
Thanks.:confused:
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