Tuesday, November 23, 2004
It has been a very frustrating 2 weeks. It started 2 Fridays ago when one of the fetchers of my students was late, again. He always fetches the child 30 minutes late, which means that my lunch break is reduced from 1 hour to 30 minutes. Everyday he always has an excuse, traffic was terrible, his tricycle wouldn't start, a road was being repaired, etc... So 2 fridays ago I decided to leave the child in the office while I have a 1 hour lunch break. The Monday after that the child's mom came to school furious. The fetcher had told her that I had locked up her son in a dark room. Duh? I explained that I had asked the school staff to watch over him and left him in the office. Four of the school staff eat their lunch in the office so he was not alone, the door was not locked and the light were not closed. What planet is that child's fetcher from? At least now he is never late in picking up the child. I've tried talking to him for the past 2 weeks but he just turns his back and leaves. What is his problem? Hmmm... maybe its because the mom discoved that he always picks up her son 30 minutes late?
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I wonder if my kid's teachers blog about me or my kid.
Mick,
We have a kid in school whose service insists to pick him up 15 minutes before dismissal. they even insisted that we let the kid wait by the gate so they can just pick him up and go. Imagine that! Leaving a kid (a special kid at that) alone outside the gate. If we're off by a few minutes, this fetcher raises hell. It got so bad one day, she continuously rang the doorbell for about three minutes frantically. Everyone thought there was a fire or something. When I confronted her, she was livid and demanded to speak to someone and complain. I obliged her and invited her to see my mom. She was blocking the gate open so I tried to move her forward so that we could ensure that no kids can escape. she actually thought I was forcefully pushing her to go see my mom.
It ended up with a full-blown meeting attended by the kid's mom, the fetcher, a witness from outside, my mom, her staff and myself. Needless to say, the woman was more livid when in the end, she was found to be completely in the wrong. Don't fret. We;ve had the school for 22 years now and you'll really meet all kinds.
Jay: "No kids can escape."
Are you running a school or a concentration camp? ;-)
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