Today, my husband and I got the privilege of joining our daughter's class for an activity. Packing camera (video and sill) equipment, we show up a couple minutes before it was slated to begin. Parents milled around, looking a little lost. When we arrived in her classroom, her teacher wasn’t there. The lack of communication was terrible! I am finding it hard to communicate just how bad it was. Nobody really knew what they were supposed to be doing or where they were supposed to go. And some people just shouldn’t be kindergarten teachers-I am one of those people, my daughter's kindergarten teacher is also one of those people. She’s a nice woman but my interactions with her haven’t relieved any of those concerns.
Our daughter wanted to be Humpty Dumpty. We prepared a boiled egg, a my little pony and a space man (borrowed from her brother of course) for her presentation of the rhyme...which we didn’t get to see because the teacher decided to have the children perform the rhymes later in the afternoon-not sure why that got delayed since that was the event all the parents were invited to. My guess is that not one parent in the grade cared to see their child walk out of the classroom and then wait for them to tour the school, only to return and not see them perform. Sigh.
At least I didn’t have work I was missing, to make sure I didn’t miss that milestone in my daughter’s kindergarten year. Another plus of being there today was that I got to talk to my son’s teacher about helping in her classroom once a week. I’m taking a step forward in doing the things that really matter to me. Yay! Go me! For like good ol’ Humpty, I feel somedays that I’ve fallen off a wall-and none of the kings horses or men could put me back together again. So I wanna see the King because He can!!
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