Well...week two is going about as well as week one. I did the tough love, drop and run yesterday and Tom had to do the extraction this morning.
Apparently, Connor awakens from his nap distressed and crying every single day and they want to know why. The teacher is nice but offers no real idea of what he is doing and most of her answers include a shrug of the shoulders.
Ian is a complete mess every morning and while the teacher took a lot of time to talk with me today when I picked him up, but we are still feeling skeptical. Today and yesterday, I watched Ian by himself, not interacting or playing with any of the other kids, who were involved in an activity. He was either crying or busy with building his little ships. She said she was offering Skittles as a reward for him not crying. (what is the deal with Arizona teachers using bribery to enforce good behavior?) So, I am paying a good chunk of my salary for this and have no peace during the day.
And after several discussions with various people, only one person thought it was pretty normal for them to cry for two weeks. Everyone else thought it was not a good sign.
And then at work, there is all-day Kindergarten, which is a complete nightmare for the first few weeks. (and months!) These poor children just needed to play or take a nap and not sit still in the afternoon when I get them. Several of the second language kids will not come to music at one school because they need that four hours of intensive language study-uninterrupted. (Good lord, Arizona. Really? I'd like to see that teacher teach those kindergarteners English for four straight hour.) If I wanted to "appeal" that decision, I could fill out paperwork to petition them to come to music, but essentially the decision has been made. Because we must have 100% passing the state test in a few years. (That's realistic.)
And the kicker, today I saw a guy on my street (waaaay down the street) sitting outside with a rifle. I drove by and did a double take on my way home. Following that, I drove by again to be sure that was what I saw and sure enough, this guy was pointing and messing around with a rifle.
I did see a police car moseying along the larger street or I would have called them myself. The guy was just sitting his porch chair with a rifle-not looking particularly angry or anything, but still!
I want out of AZ.
3 comments:
That is horrible about the man with the gun!!! So scary.
And the preschool issue....I feel so bad for you having to deal with that. I really have no advice because I didn't have that problem with my boys. They stopped crying after I left. Big hugs to you. I hope it's resolved soon.
Linda - my son was very much like Ian - he did it at pre-school when he was 3 - and this was even after he had been with a babysitter all day since he was a few weeks old - I always worked.
We got to 'big little school' as he referred to daycare and he would shuffle away from me as though going to his death. teacher said he cried on and off all day and would sit for hours alone - building (Ian) or just talking to himself.
it lasted for weeks - every night I comforted him and told him all the good things about school. I ended up crying a lot myself
then when he went to 'regular big school' at 6 it happened again. in addition to crying he also tried to run away from school at least once a day - once they actually lost him for hours!! police were called and all.
I don't like the teacher shrugging!! that's BS - it's her job to know what they're doing and how they're feeling every single second! Period!!
I just kept comforting and cheerleading day after day.
Sorry to hear things did not go well- was this the school that was your top choice? Or was that another one?
Hope things get better soon.
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