Bunny with an axe (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bunnywithanaxe) wrote,@ 2005-07-16 14:51:00 |
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May as well put my information to use
(In no particular order) Signs that you should get your kid out of a school/ get a job elsewhere:
1.The walls are decorated with stuff the teacher has made.
2. All signs are at adult-eye level, even the ones theoretically aimed at the kids.
3. Most children's art involves dittos.
4.The teachers spend more time talking to you than the kids when you come in.
5. The teachers see any activity--bean-counting, yard-sweeping, anything- as more important that supervising the kids-- that is, they seem to find any excuse to get out of the classroom
6.There are beautiful, new, interesting books arranged in a moblie, or an adult-high display on the wall. The actual books on the shelves are missing pages and covers.
7.Teachers yell at kids to stop yelling at kids.
8. Some kinds cannot do anything right, no matter what. They will only get attention when they are doing something wrong.
9.Favorites. It's normal for teachers to become attached to certain kids, but when one child is told to rest on their cot at naptime and another is invited on the teacher's lap to play, something is wrong.
10. Kids below age 2 two are given affection, positive attention, and nurturing; when they hit age 2-2 1/2 they are expected to stop crying, always listen perfectly, and never fuck up.
11. Outside time is just really a group break for the teachers, and this is the appropriate time to spend a couple hours catching up on thing.
(Will think of more later)
...
12. Transitions happen like mosh pits. Kids are expected to switch gears at the single bark of an order, with no smooth transition from one activity to another.
13. If a sub is used, the teachers use that opportunity to take a break form the harder discipline cases. So an already hard-to-handle kid is left with a total stranger and both are expected to work in complete harmony.
14. If you hear a teacher say to a 5 year old kid at any point "No crying. We don't have babies here," RUN.This person knows squat about kids, not to mention human beings.
(Don't even get me started on "Big Boys Don't Cry." People should have bamboo rammed up their nails and be told, "Aww, is the baby crying? Boo-hoo, little baby...")
15. Teachers set really bizzare, random limits and stroll out of the room,leaving another co-worker--or sub whom kids do not know from fucking Adam-- to either enforce the dumb rule or blow it off in front of kids. :"Don't let them use the cookie cutters on the green playdough;they are supposed to use that for grass. Ok, I am gonna go now." (ok that's an exaggeration, I can't think of a real life example right now, But it happens.)
Oooh! Naptime! Almost forgot!
16. Teachers tell all the kids to lie down and be silent on their mats, then walk out of class en masse, leaving one teacher to bounce around from kid to kid trying to settle things down as they polish off leftover snack and find anything they can do that will keep them out of the naproom.
17. ...but once the lone naproom attendant has managed to get all except a few kids to sleep, the prodigal teachers return to have a loud conversation aobut "days of our lives" right over the kids' heads.
[Tangent: I am really hypersensitive to noise. I have blamed it on my childhood--listening for the footsteps of abusive father, etc-- but I think a lot of it,maybe even most of it, is more about my naptime experiences as a teacher. I get really really alert to any little sound in the room when i see a little kids's eyes starting to droop, while I am sittng beside them rubbing their backs or stroking thier hair. I want everything to be perfect for them. It hit me today because I was working with this idiot who seemed to have a built-in radar about it; every time the kid I was working on would doze off that seemed to be her cue to shout over to a co-worker, "OH! DID YOU HEAR WHAT MADGE SAID TODAY??" Bah.)
18. Teacher tells sub kids get up at 2:30. One (rambunctious)kid wakes up at 2:10, but in a breathtaking display of self-control mamages to relax and stay in a prone position till 2:30. Sub informs teacher of such, and asks if it is ok to at least let kid read book on mat. Teacher says kid is to sleep 15 more minutes.Kid, despite overwhelming sucess, is shoved minute by agonizing minute over the line of fucking up, and basically his sucess is buried in the ensuing conflict with teacher.
20. (as above) basically any excuse to make the kids lie prone as long as the teachers want to kick back and chat, is a valid excuse. Keep 'em down till four o'clock, I say! (must be fucking Chinese Water Torture for the kids."lie still! Go back to sleep! Lie still, I said!"
(to be continued, I am sure)
(In no particular order) Signs that you should get your kid out of a school/ get a job elsewhere:
1.The walls are decorated with stuff the teacher has made.
2. All signs are at adult-eye level, even the ones theoretically aimed at the kids.
3. Most children's art involves dittos.
4.The teachers spend more time talking to you than the kids when you come in.
5. The teachers see any activity--bean-counting, yard-sweeping, anything- as more important that supervising the kids-- that is, they seem to find any excuse to get out of the classroom
6.There are beautiful, new, interesting books arranged in a moblie, or an adult-high display on the wall. The actual books on the shelves are missing pages and covers.
7.Teachers yell at kids to stop yelling at kids.
8. Some kinds cannot do anything right, no matter what. They will only get attention when they are doing something wrong.
9.Favorites. It's normal for teachers to become attached to certain kids, but when one child is told to rest on their cot at naptime and another is invited on the teacher's lap to play, something is wrong.
10. Kids below age 2 two are given affection, positive attention, and nurturing; when they hit age 2-2 1/2 they are expected to stop crying, always listen perfectly, and never fuck up.
11. Outside time is just really a group break for the teachers, and this is the appropriate time to spend a couple hours catching up on thing.
(Will think of more later)
...
12. Transitions happen like mosh pits. Kids are expected to switch gears at the single bark of an order, with no smooth transition from one activity to another.
13. If a sub is used, the teachers use that opportunity to take a break form the harder discipline cases. So an already hard-to-handle kid is left with a total stranger and both are expected to work in complete harmony.
14. If you hear a teacher say to a 5 year old kid at any point "No crying. We don't have babies here," RUN.This person knows squat about kids, not to mention human beings.
(Don't even get me started on "Big Boys Don't Cry." People should have bamboo rammed up their nails and be told, "Aww, is the baby crying? Boo-hoo, little baby...")
15. Teachers set really bizzare, random limits and stroll out of the room,leaving another co-worker--or sub whom kids do not know from fucking Adam-- to either enforce the dumb rule or blow it off in front of kids. :"Don't let them use the cookie cutters on the green playdough;they are supposed to use that for grass. Ok, I am gonna go now." (ok that's an exaggeration, I can't think of a real life example right now, But it happens.)
Oooh! Naptime! Almost forgot!
16. Teachers tell all the kids to lie down and be silent on their mats, then walk out of class en masse, leaving one teacher to bounce around from kid to kid trying to settle things down as they polish off leftover snack and find anything they can do that will keep them out of the naproom.
17. ...but once the lone naproom attendant has managed to get all except a few kids to sleep, the prodigal teachers return to have a loud conversation aobut "days of our lives" right over the kids' heads.
[Tangent: I am really hypersensitive to noise. I have blamed it on my childhood--listening for the footsteps of abusive father, etc-- but I think a lot of it,maybe even most of it, is more about my naptime experiences as a teacher. I get really really alert to any little sound in the room when i see a little kids's eyes starting to droop, while I am sittng beside them rubbing their backs or stroking thier hair. I want everything to be perfect for them. It hit me today because I was working with this idiot who seemed to have a built-in radar about it; every time the kid I was working on would doze off that seemed to be her cue to shout over to a co-worker, "OH! DID YOU HEAR WHAT MADGE SAID TODAY??" Bah.)
18. Teacher tells sub kids get up at 2:30. One (rambunctious)kid wakes up at 2:10, but in a breathtaking display of self-control mamages to relax and stay in a prone position till 2:30. Sub informs teacher of such, and asks if it is ok to at least let kid read book on mat. Teacher says kid is to sleep 15 more minutes.Kid, despite overwhelming sucess, is shoved minute by agonizing minute over the line of fucking up, and basically his sucess is buried in the ensuing conflict with teacher.
20. (as above) basically any excuse to make the kids lie prone as long as the teachers want to kick back and chat, is a valid excuse. Keep 'em down till four o'clock, I say! (must be fucking Chinese Water Torture for the kids."lie still! Go back to sleep! Lie still, I said!"
(to be continued, I am sure)
