Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 2/4/2006 11:57:00 AM Author: bear (infinitebeliever@hotmail.com) Subject: Directors-please resond...help-- I would love any helpful suggestions-- I have a teacher, who has been employed for 18 years at the center where I am a first year Director, and she is driving me crazy. She is not a team player at all. She only worries about her class. and never wants to participate in any of our activities with the children, such as pj day, clown around day, etc - she says its too much trouble. LOL Anyway, my main problem right now is she is constantly harassing how other teachers are running their classes, as if they are not doing enough, etc. AND now we just hired a new cook who is great...and she is constantly MAD at the new cook, complaining IF the menu has to be changed at all due to lack of some supply we did not have, or like the other day, we were short two Teachers and the cook subbed all afternoon for us to give breaks. WELL this TEACHER griped and got so angry when the menu changed from bananas to apples because the apples were not sliced properly for her 5 yr old children! She was very upset and showed this in front of several other staff members , as she griped at the cook-- I was just returning from a break and heard the tale of this. I confront her and she said yes, I am mad, and it's her job to do it right. Well I explained we would in a pinch that afternoon and the kids had a nutritious snack with apples and juice, she got mad at me, stomped away saying...the need their apples cut in lengths. I was so mad at this point, I just shut up. but I think 5 yr old children can handle an apple...grrr.... anyway, I am not the owner of the center, and when I tell this type of behavior to the owners, they just say to ignore it and not let it get to me...however I am tired of this now...and it is causing so much stress at our center and now especially on our new cook. I do not want her to quit...the other day, this same teacher complained because she did not like the way the pizza was made....the hamburger was still frozen, so we used sausage instead....this was another day of doing what we could..(We have had teachers out with flu) anyway--it was a minor thing but the whole day was stressed because this ONE teacher out of 10 staff members was mad at the cook, and at me for this error/change--ANY SUGGESTIONS??? Name: Email: Subject

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