Alpha, my wife, called me at work on Friday and told me Gamma, our youngest daughter, had been expelled from kindergarten earlier that day. Right after lunch: nap time. Gamma loves daycare, she loves the kids and the action and the food. She just doesn’t like anyone telling her when to sleep.
So there she was, amongst about 6 professional (and that means professionally-trained and schooled, here in Austria they have separate schools for kindergarten teachers, with apprenticeship programs) child-care specialists, not a bit sleepy at nap time and this is the worst part: giving 30 other little kids the idea that there might be funner things to do than nap right now. The teachers are all trying to talk Gamma into sleeping, the other kids are starting to sit up and look around, so they move Gamma into the lunch room, (solitary confinement) where she starts doing her Liza Minelli impersonation, belting out songs at the top of her voice, happy as a clam.
Alpha was called and had to pick her up ASAP. Normally they only allow kids to stay there all day, but they made Alpha sign a half-day (has to pick Gamma up just after lunch, before nap time) contract, then gave her Gamma’s mattress back etc and they were out of there. So this is proof that Gamma is too much for even hardened professionals.
On the other hand, when I dropped her off this morning she looked sad and cried when I left. She was happy to get to kindergarten, she just expected that I would spend the day there with her…
5 responses to Child Expelled from Kindergarten
Children. Strong enough to make grown people cry.
I’m sorry, did you say these people are…professionals? Sounds like they need to go back to school.
visiting my sister once in seattle two years ago, she arranged for a babysitter so we adults could go out to a concert.
the sitter had a masters degree in child psychology and two grown children of her own, and decades of experience.
when we got back around midnight, she was standing in front of the house chainsmoking, and our child, then 3, was in the kitchen, arms crossed, scowl on her face. she had refused to go to bed, and the woman had been unable to talk her into it.
Child Expelled from Kindergarten
sounds like this child needs some decipline at home. what does this say to the other children in the class. that if you don’t like school you can act up and mom or dad will come to your rescue and take you home. when parents think that teachers are babysitters then they need to go back to school.
I get the impression that you’re not telling us the whole story… I mean I heard of energetic kids causing uproars but that alone is not enough to get her kicked out. It’s okay for children to be spirited but to be flat out defiant is not good. As her parent, you need to give her some tough love and teach her that she has to obey authority even if she doesn’t want to.
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