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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember a room mom creating a project to have our kindergartners make squares for a quilt for their teacher who was expecting. Our kids also had one middle school teacher (biology) who overshared about her IVF procedure in the context of a biology class.
But this idea that a teacher merely teaches and shouldn’t be viewed as a person is bizarre. My mom volunteers in an inner city school and if Mr. Johnson’s (fifth grade teacher) husband didn’t volunteer as a chaperone there would be no field trips. Should he be banned from doing so? Most of the kids parents work so there are never enough volunteers.[/quote]

Two people can be chaperones but you don’t need to announce that they’re married, kids figure it out and move on. Talking about it brings too many questions. That one teacher could have explained ivf without telling the class that she was going through that and kindergarteners Can make a quilt for their teacher without knowing it’s because the teacher is pregnant. I’ve worked in public and private school and private homes. In all situations I never told parents or children anything about my personal life other than one family that knew I assisted an elderly family member and that was only because of scheduling issues. They knew nothing beyond my resume and we kept  chit chat to a minimum, weather, what’s for dinner, etc. The focus especially in homes always remained on the child and chit chat was maybe a minute when I first walked in the door. End of session chit chat was always focused around how the child did and progress or issues. I worked in some of these houses for hours weekly across several years and was able to keep my private life private. It’s not that difficult if you focus on the children. At school again I keep the focus on the children and the curriculum, I don’t discuss anything with children that I’m not certain their parents would be ok with and I don’t talk to adults about anything I wouldn’t want getting back to the children because we all know teachers gossip around children and children hear everything. Problems I’m unsure of I refer up the ladder and let them handle it. It doesn’t make me less of a person or less of a role model, in fact I think it teaches children that they don’t need to share everything with everyone. I know parents have been very appreciative of this because sometimes situations arise at home and you need to teach a child that they can’t talk about that during school the next day. Modeling things we do talk about helped them understand this better. [/quote]

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