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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not wrong at all.  You plan to fire her for VERY good reasons.  Although, I do assume you've spoken to her about the issues and allowed her time to improve. [/quote]

How do you improve rolling your eyes, saying out loud to children "I can't wait to get out of here", calling children "naughty" repeatedly when they're basically being...little kids, telling me my kids cry for "no reason", and acting offended as all heck when asked to perform agreed-upon job duties?  Every time we've gently mentioned anything, she's been incredibly defensive. I'm sure we could have had more direct conversations about each issue, but the overall situation is that she has a bad attitude with our children, actively ignores them, and feels put-upon when asked to do her job.  There are some people who can take guidance and constructive criticism, and others who can't.  She falls into the "can't" category.  We have tried, gently, and even gently has been too harsh for her.[/quote]

OP here: I should add - thank you for your response, and yes, I agree that allowing opportunity to improve is important; I just feel like we've tried to gently push in that direction and even the slightest nudge makes her attitude worse, not better.  Maybe she's been having a rough time of it for some other reason, but it's been a challenging six or so months that she's been with us.  Her expectation is that we fix all of HER problems. No effort to pick up her own performance.[/quote]

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