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When I’m not studying, I’m a part time teacher at a preschool, let me tell you, I love working with kids. I work in the city at a large preschool with many kids to tend to. One years to be specific, but I cannot help but to rant about my dislike of working with the children’s parents. Now I know that “Going Green” is a huge thing right now, its good to tell your kids to turn off their bedroom lights, not to let the water run, so on and so on, most of this takes place in the home. But how do you make your infant green? Or expect teachers to make them green while at preschool?
Where I work I expect to change diapers and interact with the children, what I did not expect was that I would have to bend backwards for parents to be “ green”.
Really I do appreciate the thought put towards out planets future, but when a parent brings there child in to school with a cloth diaper demanding I scrape it clean of soil and wash it and put it back on their child when the facility doesn’t offer that service, I get a bit irritated , especially when that parent makes a scene about how diapers fill landfills and kill our planet.
Then there is always the opposite situation, the parents who want there kids changed every half hour or so, dry or not, God forbid there child is sent home in a diaper that was just wetted the ten minutes before they went home.
I recycle, I bring my own bags to the store, I minimize my use of water, so naturally I get annoyed when a parent asks if their child’s finger painting was on recycled paper and scoff at me when the answer is a big fat no. Overtime is great, but not on a Friday night when you must stay past your shift with multiple children because the group of those children’s parents carpool together and are all stuck in the same car in traffic.
Once again I am all for going green, I just wish at times it wouldn’t be a burden at work. Any parents of kids in preschool on board? I would love to hear your Points of view