I was a lead teacher for a classroom of 2 year olds and before our open house my dumbass assisant asked the director if she could repaint one of the walls the day before. She was the handy-mans daughter so the director assumed she could handle it. I come in the following morning and the owner, director/my boss, and my other assistant are moving furniture around in the room, looking completely pissed and the kids are running around pretty much unsupervised as they do this. Nobody offered me, the lead teacher, any information so I said first things first and got my classroom of two year olds to clean up and get ready for snack because this is usually done by the time my shift started and we were behind schedule and in a potty training room this could literally ruin the day. Things gdt settled, director and owner leave, still saying nothing about why we just re-arranged my classroom. I ask my assistant and she snaps "didn't you see the wall???", a dumb question considering they were moving furniture to hide it. She moves a toy and the wall is this bumpy patch painted an entirely different shade of purple thab the rest of the wall. The other assistant patched it, didn't sand it, then painted over it with a purple that doesn't match any of our walls.
I later get pulled into my boss' office and told that they think i'm too calm to lead a classroom according to the owner. They weren't demoting me or anything, just wanted to let me know they think I suck I guess. But how, as a lead teacher, was keeping my class contained and on schedule while they handled an issue, not the right way to lead. I'm a lead teacher. This is literally my job. Three people were handling that issue and not one was handling my kids. Maybe just misplaced fruatration, but I can't understand how someone working with 22 2-year olds can be "too calm".
I was a lead teacher for a classroom of 2 year olds and before our open house my dumbass assisant asked the director if she could repaint one of the walls the day before. She was the handy-mans daughter so the director assumed she could handle it. I come in the following morning and the owner, director/my boss, and my other assistant are moving furniture around in the room, looking completely pissed and the kids are running around pretty much unsupervised as they do this. Nobody offered me, the lead teacher, any information so I said first things first and got my classroom of two year olds to clean up and get ready for snack because this is usually done by the time my shift started and we were behind schedule and in a potty training room this could literally ruin the day. Things gdt settled, director and owner leave, still saying nothing about why we just re-arranged my classroom. I ask my assistant and she snaps "didn't you see the wall???", a dumb question considering they were moving furniture to hide it. She moves a toy and the wall is this bumpy patch painted an entirely different shade of purple thab the rest of the wall. The other assistant patched it, didn't sand it, then painted over it with a purple that doesn't match any of our walls.
I later get pulled into my boss' office and told that they think i'm too calm to lead a classroom according to the owner. They weren't demoting me or anything, just wanted to let me know they think I suck I guess. But how, as a lead teacher, was keeping my class contained and on schedule while they handled an issue, not the right way to lead. I'm a lead teacher. This is literally my job. Three people were handling that issue and not one was handling my kids. Maybe just misplaced fruatration, but I can't understand how someone working with 22 2-year olds can be "too calm".
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