I don't mind the nursery school charging me whatever fee they charge for my having been 2 minutes late today. 2! TWO minutes.
But I do mind the totally rude way the teacher let me know about it. It's not the first time she's acted really grim and bitchy. Does she act like that with the kids too?
The other 5 or 6 moms/nannies who were 2-5 minutes late also got the bitch-fest.
Mommy Arma was freaking out bigtime. "She shook her finger at me! She yelled at me in front of my kids! 5 minutes! I had to jumpstart my car! I'm pulling my kids out of there! I expect to be treated with respect and it's not because I'm rich or stuckup! "
"Oh God, Arma. I'm sorry I called you rich. I'm right here in the Cadillac of preschools with you, paying the same fees. The teacher was totally unnecessarily bitchy."
I think about her and her boundary problems. Someone's rude to you for 5 seconds: in response, throw a hissy, start a boycott, pull your kids out of school, start an activist group. Maybe she went through some long period of having no boundaries or being walked over, and then behaving like her is a natural state of over-correcting.
Anyway. There was a collective, pissy "WhatEVER" rising from the preschool walkways and parking lot, rising like heat off the pavement.
Rebelliously, everyone stayed talking on the sidewalk (AGAINST THE RULES) as Teacher T. clicked past us, bristling and clenching her teeth.
Makes you wonder. What's going on with her? I mean, if I had to stay any longer than 2:00 with all those preschoolers, I'd have a lot more than that to say about it. You couldn't pay me enough. But still. Is it some hidden conflict with teacher Anarchy?
Posted by: Jo | August 16, 2004 at 03:53 PM
And Arma, oh my god, I'm so glad I am tentatively on her "good" side. She wins the Most Likely to Put Bag o' Flaming Shit on Porch award, as you pointed out the other day.
Posted by: Jo | August 16, 2004 at 03:54 PM
Sounds like a good time for a cooling-off period between the teachers and the parents. Let the school director handle the finger-wagging for a while, hopefully with a little more tact. That's what she gets paid the big bucks for. At least that would have been the solution at my kids' preschool (which my youngest has at long last graduated from -- taxpayer-funded kindergarten starts tomorrow! Hooray!)
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | August 16, 2004 at 07:00 PM
That was mb whose fertile brain imagined and feared the bag of flaming poop!
Posted by: badgerbag | August 16, 2004 at 07:01 PM