Your child isn’t the only kid in the classroom
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Anonymous
| Our class has their Halloween party today. I specially asked that children bring their costumes in a bag and we would change them after nap. 1 parent came in and told me her child did not want to bring it in a bag said sorry and ran out the door. Most of you will tell me this is no big deal. However after the mom left I had 4 kids cry at drop off because they were not in costume like ___. 2 others who constantly complained it wasn’t fair he got to wear his costume all day. He could not do the art project or manipulatives because the costume had gloves that he didn’t want to take them off. Then had to deal with a meltdown because part of his costume was unsafe for the playground and had to have him take that part off. Parents we don’t ask these things because we are lazy, or don’t want to do our job. (Do you really think it’s easy for me to put on 17 Halloween costumes?) It’s because we’ve been doing this a long time and we’ve made mistakes and know what works best and what doesn’t. |
Anonymous
| Any decent preschool teacher would have been more understanding. Sounds like it is time to retire. |
Anonymous
| Schools should just ban the whole wear a costume to school thng anyow. Total pain in the ass. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
LOL, here is that kid's parent. |
Anonymous
you are ridiculous. |
Anonymous
I agree. Halloween is one day a year, and it's a bit chaotic. Roll with it. |
Anonymous
OP is rolling with it. The child is not. My son's K teacher sent the list of rules for costumes, and i followed them. I don't want my son to be the one who disrupts the class more than necessary. |
Anonymous
But you can't keep a kid from wearing a costume to preschool. Couldn't he dress like that every day if he wanted to really? Maybe the kid has issues with getting dressed and the mom didn't want him to be embarrassed? |
Anonymous
OP is a preschool teacher. It's normal for kids to cry in her class. And if she has 17 4-year-olds in her class, I don't have a lot of sympathy. That's just too many. My DC's preschools have had 8-12 kids per class with an aide. |
Anonymous
| Assh*le parent. Their kid is too special to follow the rules. When I was a teacher, I would not have allowed the parent to leave without taking her child home. |
Anonymous
All I see on DCUM are entitled parents always wanting or justifying an exception for their child. The school requested costumes in a bag for after nap and that should be followed. |
Anonymous
It's preschool, for goodness sake! |
Anonymous
+1. Our preschool requested they come in costumes. I brought ours because I didn't want it to get messy during breakfast (which she eats there). The teacher asked me to put it on her, so I put it on her. If it's messy for tonight, then oh well. They're juggling a bunch of kids and Halloween is chaotic. Totally understandable they don't want to wrangle a bunch of kids into costumes. Be nice and follow the rules to make it easier on them. |
Anonymous
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I wouldn't take it personally OP. The parent probably had no idea that arriving in costume would make your life more difficult. In fact, they probably thought the opposite...
"Oh, Miss Larla has to take the time to dress all of the kids, and mine is throwing a fit about wanting to wear his costume, so I'll just dress him now." They didn't give us guidance about whether to dress or not dress, so I asked the teachers. They said it would be easier not to dress them in the morning, and instead do it later for the party / parade, but everyone showed up in costume nonetheless. It's not rudeness or selfishness, it's just a lack of understanding. |