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[quote=Anonymous]We recently moved and started our 3.5 year old at a new preschool (private, not dcps).  One of her new teachers is very rule-focused and seems a tiny bit stern/harsh with the kids.  My kid is quiet and shy and she’s started complaining at night that she doesn’t want to go to school because she’s scared of that teacher.  The teacher isn’t awful—it’s just small things like she asks the kids to say “Beunos Dias” on their way into the room.  When my shy kid doesn’t say it, the teacher gives her a disapproving look and says “you’re a big girl.  At this school, we say “beunos dias” before we come into class.”  She doesn’t yell or anything like that.  But it makes my kid anxious about going in every day.   We practice saying it in the hall but she still gets nervous about entering the classroom because she knows that the “beunos dias” confrontation is the first thing that happens.

The other main complaint from my kid is about nap time.  At her prior school, if kids didn’t fall asleep within a half hour, they could look at a book on their cot as long as they were quiet.  At the new school, the rule is that there are no books allowed during rest time.  That’s not a huge deal, but the teacher takes it a step further and says “eyes must be closed during nap.”  My kid rarely naps and she reports that she gets “in trouble” whenever she opens her eyes.  My guess is that she’s not really getting in trouble and that the teacher just reminds her to close her eyes repeatedly.

Anyway, I wanted to talk with the teacher or the school to see if this particular teacher might ease up on my kid as she gets used to the new environment, but I’m worried that (a) it’s rude of me to interfere and (b) the teacher will view new/my kid as problems and be even harsher.

Again, the teacher seems generally fine to me—just a little harsh, given that the kid is 3. [/quote]

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