Yesterday my son was (allegedly for legal purposes) assulted at daycare by his teacher, I only found out about it because a mother in the area was taking her children to the park accross the street from the daycare's playground. The daycare keeps coming up with different stories about what happened. The mother that witnessed this has no reason to lie to me about what happened. We went and filed a police report and they police called the woman that witnessed this and she was going to the police station to write a report and talk about what she saw and then DCFS would be notified. Now the daycare called and said that isn't what happened, not at all how she described and she talked to all of the teachers and the one that did it, and again, that isn't what happened. I have an appointment to look at another daycare and just want to make sure I am handling this correctly. This woman said the teacher was screaming in his face "top lungs" and it must have been loud enough for the woman to know what my sons name was and she was close enough to know what the teachers were wearing and also my son.
Answers to questions: unfortunatly I have no back-up so he had to go back today and probaly the rest of the week, the daycare we are looking at can take him on tuesday. The daycare this happened at is All About Caring in Warrenville (I am so sorry to the parents that I recommended this place too, it wasn't always like this).
We just signed our son up at the Adventures in Learning on Shoreline road and when an opening comes up in Naperville we are going to switch him to that one (right down the street from where we live and I also take the train-more convienent) I was very impressed with what I had seen compared to the one he is at; this one was 100% cleaner, and nicer, and the people were super friendly. My son DID NOT want to leave. He starts on Tuesday in the toddler room. The set up was excellent! All the children we saw were smiling and happy (except for my son who wanted to stay in the atrium or toddler room and play). On the tour they show you all the rooms, I was impressed with all the room and the infant room was very nice. I am a little nervous about what the daycare this happened at is going to say after I give them notice, plus I am not giving the 2 weeks that I am supposed to, I really hope that they wont fight me on this.
Get your kid out of there now. I hope you didn't send him back in today!!! And do us all a favor and let us know which daycare this was.
I am sorry something like this happened to you. Trust your gut.
Regardless of "if" the teacher did it or not, I beleive the other lady has no reason to lie, to just report what she thought happened. I would indeed remove my child from this daycare. I could not going forward go to work and concentrate if I had to keep questioning myself every second, is my child ok? did anything happen?
I would definately remove my child, and try to sort this out later. I have had a somewhat similar incident at my daughters school and the principal stuck up for the teacher, even going so far as to say, not one of the persons in her employ at the school would ever raise their voice at a child. (well they did, and i have witnessed it).
I have found that people will "lie" for their employees regardless when they think it will look bad on them if ever discovered that the employee really did what they were accused of. Cant have an employee making the boss look like she/he isnt aware of the surroundings.
Good luck. Do what is in your heart. That will not steer you wrong.
I think you are doing the right thing...and I hope you did not send him back there! Poor thing. I would be extrememly p**sed off!! I am wondering if when they look into this daycare closer, they will find other things going on that shouldn't be....
I hope you keep us posted about what happens! Good luck!
I agree, follow you gut/heart & take your poor son out of there & let all of us know which daycare this was & where.
THink of it this way: you are protecting your child, if it does come out later, after all is settled, that this did not happen ir not to the extent the lady said it did, you still did the right thing by protecting your child from danger (what if you sent him back and because you are going to the police about the situation and DCFS is investigating them they take this out on your child?)
