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Home › Diaries › Megan › August 16, 2000

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August 16, 2000

Jordan Hi, I have to start off talking about this pre-school that my MIL and I went to check out for Jordan last week. It was the only one we have visited and I am so turned off about the prospect of seeing more. Maybe it was just a bad school or a fluke but I was appalled by the place. It was a Montessori school which I had heard positive things about. We get there and are lead into the preschool room where a teacher's aide is sitting at a table with all the children gathered around her, and they ALL have their hands behind their backs which signaled to me that they had been taught that. Well the aide is sitting there cutting paper and pasting and every time a child moved or said something she would tell them that it was time to watch and be quiet. Okay, I'm thinking when she is done showing them how to do it it will be their time. Wrong!!!! She finishes up and then puts everything away and has the kids go sit in a circle on the rug and they all have to sit the same way or she goes over to them and crosses their legs for them. Then the teacher who had been just watching up to this point comes over and says that it is time for songs. Then it was the weirdest thing they start singing songs and they are only allowed to sing in a voice a little more than a whisper and they were told to quiet down if they got louder. Then two little boys sitting next to each other start making faces at each other, and that's it, only faces, neither one said anything or touched each other. So the teacher comes over and separates them putting one of the boys in a new seat, well the one left makes another face at the boy when he sits down and the teacher comes over and grabs his chin in her hand and gets right in his face and says "We do not make faces". At that point I had enough and we left. I would never send Jordan to a place like that, she has a wonderful spirit that I don't want broken. I realize that she will have to learn certain skills on how to behave in school but I don't want her to be a little robot that has to stand with her hands behind her back watching the teacher do an art project that she isn't allowed to do. I'd love to hear from anyone with advice about pre-schools, I am not looking forward to checking out more after this experience. Oh, I forgot to mention that Jordan, my normally out-going, loves to go places child was in tears after 15 minutes at this place telling me she wanted to leave. I think she sensed that it was a place she would not like.

Jordan On to another subject even though I could go on and on about that place. Jordan has become the manners police. It is kind of cute and I think it is wonderful that she has manners but I don't really care to be reprimanded by a 2-year-old. Today was a perfect example, we were getting into the car to go to the mall and I'm fighting with the stroller to fold it up and Jordan sneezes and while I heard it I was so intent on what I was doing I didn't say anything to her. So comes over to me with her hands on her hips and an attitude and says, "Mommy!!! You didn't say bless you to me!!" What am I going to do with this kid!!! LOL. So now I am hyper sensitive to remember all MY manners!! Well everyone, have a good week!!!!

Megan and Jordan



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