I think I dislike my job now. I love the work, not the job. I love my students, I love what I do, I do not like the way the school is run. I like my boss as a person, not as a boss. She's flaky and irresponsible and can't admit when she's wrong. My "afternoon supervisor" is prejudiced and ignorant and conceited. My aide is also ignorant and conceited, she tries to make herself look more intelligent than she is, and it's obvious. She also has a severe lack of people skills. I can't complain about the morning toddler teacher, she's wonderful at what she does. I don't really deal with any of the other staff members, so I couldn't care less what they do. I haven't heard any children complain about them, so they're alright with me. The "afternoon supervisor" (I will always put this in quotes, because I feel it's just a title, she doesn't do the job the supervisor is supposed to do. When she starts handling all the responsibilites of the job, I will start to consider her the real deal) finally spoke with my aide about her responsibilities. Well, part of them anyway. She was informed that she is not allowed to give information to the parents or tell the parents what she thinks they should do. Example: A little boy was tuggin on his ear, so she tells the child's mother "He was pulling on his ear, that means he has an ear infection and you have to take him to the doctor". Hello!!! When did you get your MD? And in that same week, to the same child's mother: "He was coughing and had alot of congestion, you should put him on breathing treatments". I wish the woman would tell the director that she's doing this...she's handling it well though. She knows the aide gets off at 5:15, so now she picks her child up at 5:20, instead of the usual 4:45. LOL, I would too, avoid little miss know-it-all. So the "supervisor" told the aide not to do that. She said "Miss Dawn is in charge of the babies. She is the only one that's with them all day, so she knows what's going on. If the parent asks you a question, you tell them 'you need to speak with Miss Dawn'. If you think there is something the parent needs to know, tell Miss Dawn. She's probably handled it already, but don't hesitate to tell her something you think is important. Remember, she's in charge of you". HAHA! First time I've been proud of Liz since she became "supervisor". Way to handle it! Today she also made the aide start disenfecting toys, like she's supposed to have been doing all along. And tomorrow she's going to discuss with her the rest of the responsibilites she's neglecting. I think it's a blessing that I'm no longer supervisor, because I don't want to have to deal with all that. Right now, if I have problems with this girl, I tell Liz and she handles it. Okay, enough bitchin. I saw bunches of my kiddos when I went to the park with my family on the 4th of July. I was talking to some old friends, and one of my old students runs up and yells "Miss DAWN! She gave me a big hug, then went back to her mommy. She walked backwards and waved until she couldn't see me anymore, it was so cute. Another one of my toddlers was there, I held her for awhile (shhh, she's my favorite)...when she came in Tuesday, her mommy put her down, she goes "Daw!" and didn't even tell her mommy bye, lol. She runs up and says "I see you sterday!" And told everybody that she "see Dawn sterday, at pireworts". (yesterday, and fireworks, in toddler-talk) I love my toddlers.