Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Planning on leaving: how do I do it?


I want to leave because I don't feel my boss is helpful. Our school has an "absolutely no contact with parents" rule that makes parents ready to react at the smallest thing.I'm tired of getting reprimanded for things that aren't my fault- like issues that happen to kids when I'm not even in the room or building (such as a floater putting the wrong underwear from the wrong cubby on a kid/a diaper not being changed in the afternoon before I left), being put into a classroom with 12 three year old kids and no training (I hadn't even met any of them before I was made lead).She makes these weekly newsletters for staff that state "please don't do this", with very obvious descriptions that show what teacher did what, and what she plans to do to "whoever would do this". It's a hairpin trigger- I've gone three months with no incident reports, no mistakes, nothing and BAM! threatened to get fired for a kid smacking another kid (admittedly my fault, I was cleaning the lunchroom and couldn't grab him in time).Shoot, I've even asked for training to help me manage a classroom better, and the coworker (from our sister school, teaching for two decades) told me that my class had several students in need of evaluations and it would take 2-3 months to get them onto a routine... WITH behavioral evals. Shoot, even my boss admitted that they were a tough bunch and couldn't manage them alone, but she expected me, with six month's experience, to do so?Our staff is so much a skeleton crew that I can't even take a bathroom break most of the day! We currently have no scheduled breaks... despite working 8-6. She frequently doctors our hours and forges our signatures to get paychecks out in one day. She had her son (a minor) working the kitchen for over a month (and delivering kids/watching them at nap).I guess that one of my co-workers tried to quit, and was told that she cannot quit without two weeks notice. Then she tried to give two weeks notice, and was informed that she would have to pay $300 for "training" (what training lol).So yeah. I want to quit. I don't plan on returning to childcare; I'm going back to corporate bullshit. How do I do this? I've got a failsafe job lined up and ready... it's the whole "you owe me $300" that gets me. I have references from past workplaces and current coworkers; I'm just worried that she'll try to pull all these stunts again. via /r/ECEProfessionals https://ift.tt/3kF7SEX

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