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Oct. 16th, 2009 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Okay, so I have a known and acknowledged problem with authority. If someone gets autocratic with me, my hackles rise faster than a rocket on liftoff. I have learned to tone down my automatic response to something more along the lines of outward acceptance, but it still bugs the hell out of me when someone tells me what to do.
Which leads to my mini rant.
Yesterday, when I picked Babe up from school, the substitute teacher who brought Babe to the car told me that Babe needed to wear shoes in the classroom instead of his rain boots. Now, if it were wet out, I would have automatically sent shoes in Babe's bag, because wet or muddy boots are messy and slippery and generally bad. It was not wet out. Her excuse was that the boots get hot, but... Babe can and does wear those boots for hours and hours without complaining about the heat. And that was in the summertime (when it WAS inappropriate for him to wear them, and I had to cajole him out of them). It is not summertime anymore.
So, I'm annoyed.
It doesn't help that she just instinctively put my back up by her body language. She looks like the job is an inconvenience to her. She has a sourness about her that just doesn't jive with teaching preschool. She radiates disapproval.
Now, since Babe has come home cheerful both days this week (the sub is for the entire week), I am assuming she doesn't bring that sourness to the classroom (just saves it for the adults. Hmmph), but... I'll be glad when Babe's regular teacher gets back.
Which leads to my mini rant.
Yesterday, when I picked Babe up from school, the substitute teacher who brought Babe to the car told me that Babe needed to wear shoes in the classroom instead of his rain boots. Now, if it were wet out, I would have automatically sent shoes in Babe's bag, because wet or muddy boots are messy and slippery and generally bad. It was not wet out. Her excuse was that the boots get hot, but... Babe can and does wear those boots for hours and hours without complaining about the heat. And that was in the summertime (when it WAS inappropriate for him to wear them, and I had to cajole him out of them). It is not summertime anymore.
So, I'm annoyed.
It doesn't help that she just instinctively put my back up by her body language. She looks like the job is an inconvenience to her. She has a sourness about her that just doesn't jive with teaching preschool. She radiates disapproval.
Now, since Babe has come home cheerful both days this week (the sub is for the entire week), I am assuming she doesn't bring that sourness to the classroom (just saves it for the adults. Hmmph), but... I'll be glad when Babe's regular teacher gets back.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:55 pm (UTC)One thing I have come across here a few times is that the teacher will tell off the child for a decision made by the parents. Now THAT really makes me furious.
I'm pleased Babe is growing up - it's a lovely transition.
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Date: 2009-10-16 11:50 pm (UTC)That being said teaching is a very challenging job with not nearly enough compensation... particularly energetically.