Danica's Day: 2009

The last few months I had been touring many preschools in the area, to find none that I was happy with. Yet, a friend of mine had her son going to Joyce's Toluca Lake preschool, and she was happy with it, so I enrolled Danica. Danica's first day went great, she was so excited to go to school. The next day was the same, she was happy to go and told me she loved preschool. The next week, was a different story. When I dropped Danica off she was not happy with me leaving, she wanted me to stay. She was telling me how much she missed me. The next day was the same, she was not happy with preschool and did not want me to leave. Now comes this week. I stop my car and she notices where we are and says she wants to go home. I said, no Danica you have to go to Preschool today. I take her inside, have her use the toliet, since it seems no one takes the time to do this 'during' preschool, thus Danica just pees in her pull-up. And Danica is so scared as soon as she sees a teacher. She does not want me to leave. When I turn around to leave, she starts screaming and crying. It breaks my heart, I think to myself, but I must leave . I ask the preschool director if Danica is disruptive during nap time, because she is always telling me that the teacher are telling her to be quiet. The director was not sure, if Danica slept or not. Who knows, maybe it's her lunch break during nap time.
I told her that I was giving my two week notice because Danica did not seem to be adjusting well to preschool. Well, today takes the cake. Danica told me she was a bad girl in preschool, that she hit a little kid in the face who was wearing a 'car shirt.' She then told me that the teacher hit her in the butt and face and that teacher was scary. I was wondering if this was the case, so I kept asking Danica questions about what went on. She said that she was then put in 'time out' or told to sit down on the ground. I could not get the reason why Danica hit the other child, I think Danica was stressed out today and may have been acting out. But I was really mad when she told me the teacher hit her. I don't really know what teacher it is, but I have some idea. I think it may be a teacher who Danica is really scared of. These 'teachers' are not really what I would consider teachers, due to the fact they all look like they are fresh out of high school. I highly doubt many of them have any educational training in Early Childhood Ed. Plus I think that the school is too small for the amount of children in the one room. They have the 2,3 and 4 year olds in one room, just in different areas of the room. And the rooms is not very large to accommodate that many children. I am upset with the fact that LA does not have many 'good' preschools. The one I really liked had a long waiting list and they could not give me an estimate as to how long I would be on that list. And I did not feel like paying $100 non refundable just to wait on the list for the next two years. So back to the drawing board...