mostly random musings

[terriqat]

So I finally bowed to the not so subtle pressure of actually keeping in touch with everyone while 7000 miles away. Hence an update on my life: having survived the chaggim, I am spending my mornings at the CY learning Talmud, and my afternoons at Alyn (Israel's only pediatric rehab hospital). At Alyn I am spending two days a week working with

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Supervisory woes

[terriqat]

Oh, no. That was sarcasm: she was atrocious. An example: We had a shelf in the big toy closet where we kept the adult scissors, staplers and other things the kids needed supervision to work with. She had put a cup of tea on the shelf. One of the older kids went into the closet for the tape, and accidentally spilled the tea all over her hands. Rather than immediately rushing her to the the sink to cool off her hands, my supervisor sat there and yelled at her until I grabbed the kid and ran with her to the bathroom to rinse off her hands and stop the burning. I had gotten her calmed down -- she was pretty upset, more because of the scolding than anything else, and put some ointment on her hands. When we got back to the classroom my supervisor started in on her again. While its true the girl should not have been going into the closet without asking, thats not the way you handle an accident like that. What really pissed me off was when I wanted to fill out an accident report (ie tell the parents) she wouldn't let me even though its the law.

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[fleurdelis28]

Wow -- that's just not even smart, given that what kid isn't going to tell their parents?

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[terriqat]

This one. Mommy and Daddy are emotionally abusive. (Mom tells her every day she didn't want girls and that she's never going to be happy because she's a girl)

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[fleurdelis28]

Did your supervisor calculate this?

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[shirei_shibolim]

Speaking as someone who's heard plenty about the woman, I doubt it. I think it just happened in such a way that she didn't get fired. There's also a chance that she just didn't care about her job, since it was going to end that year no matter what anyone did. (The school closed.)

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[terriqat]

Basically true. There were other similar situations, and nothing happened. Parents may have gotten annoyed, but they didn't actually do anything about it.