janetupnorth
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Ok, I just finally got on for the day and this has been bothering me ALL day so I have to vent it...
So, I take my daughter and friend's kids to school today. I go talk to DS's preschool teacher for a few minutes to see how his 2 days of school went...turns out my son was the "disciplinarian" of the class - trying to keep the kids in line - go figure! LOL!
Then up to say good-bye to DD and give her hugs. I walk into her room and her teacher is walking in with a little blonde-haired 1st grader with her knuckles bleeding, her nose scraped raw and a fat lip. ...and about 4 kids worried about her. I get all the other kids shooed off to put their things away and the teacher asks for my help (she knows I'm an EMT and she is O.K. with band-aids but worried about this). I take the little girl to the bathroom, clean and bandage her up and discover her front tooth is loose and she said it wasn't loose before. Luckily, it is a baby tooth.
So, I escort her back to class, get her settled...she sits next to DD so DD is now comforting her and I'm explaining to the "kind" kids telling her she looks awful and needs surgery that she is just fine, it'll heal up and please don't tell her it looks bad (that makes a 6 year old cry)!
I express my concern to the teacher about the tooth and recommend that they call the parents to tell them and let them decide if they want to leave her for the day or get her looked at. Well, the teacher says, "I would but she says she fell when she got out of the car, Mom saw it, she showed Mom and Mom drove off and left her."
WHAT MOTHER WOULD LEAVE A 6 YEAR OLD BLOODIED WITH A FAT LIP AND ENTIRELY SCRAPED NOSE AND KNUCKLES AND DRIVE OFF?!?!?!?!
No wonder the girl was crying and clinging to me when I cared for her.
I was late for work today by about 10 minutes, but my boss is so flexible and great about it and I couldn't leave the poor girl like that.
So, I take my daughter and friend's kids to school today. I go talk to DS's preschool teacher for a few minutes to see how his 2 days of school went...turns out my son was the "disciplinarian" of the class - trying to keep the kids in line - go figure! LOL!
Then up to say good-bye to DD and give her hugs. I walk into her room and her teacher is walking in with a little blonde-haired 1st grader with her knuckles bleeding, her nose scraped raw and a fat lip. ...and about 4 kids worried about her. I get all the other kids shooed off to put their things away and the teacher asks for my help (she knows I'm an EMT and she is O.K. with band-aids but worried about this). I take the little girl to the bathroom, clean and bandage her up and discover her front tooth is loose and she said it wasn't loose before. Luckily, it is a baby tooth.
So, I escort her back to class, get her settled...she sits next to DD so DD is now comforting her and I'm explaining to the "kind" kids telling her she looks awful and needs surgery that she is just fine, it'll heal up and please don't tell her it looks bad (that makes a 6 year old cry)!
I express my concern to the teacher about the tooth and recommend that they call the parents to tell them and let them decide if they want to leave her for the day or get her looked at. Well, the teacher says, "I would but she says she fell when she got out of the car, Mom saw it, she showed Mom and Mom drove off and left her."
WHAT MOTHER WOULD LEAVE A 6 YEAR OLD BLOODIED WITH A FAT LIP AND ENTIRELY SCRAPED NOSE AND KNUCKLES AND DRIVE OFF?!?!?!?!
No wonder the girl was crying and clinging to me when I cared for her.
I was late for work today by about 10 minutes, but my boss is so flexible and great about it and I couldn't leave the poor girl like that.