Note to all people who might work with my children…if you have a rule or a guideline that you have established that pertains to the admittance of children into your program-stick to it! We had this problem with Montessori and potty training. Every time I spoke with them about potty training they seemed very willing to work with him. No problem. Send him. But when it came right down to it (and when I read the parent handbook) their policy is they have to be potty trained and when I spoke with the teacher at the back to school parent teacher night she said that he didn’t have to be potty trained, but that if he wasn’t potty trained soon after school started then they would have to dismiss him. Why would I set him up to be kicked out of school? If you have a policy…stick to it! You have that rule for a reason and it is probably a good one. This week Colm’s violin teacher and I had a couple of long talks about Colm’s readiness (or lack thereof) to play the violin. She also let me know that she doesn’t normally take students who haven’t had at least one year of preschool under their belts. Why didn’t she tell me this from the beginning? I would have been totally fine with waiting. We had already started with the other teacher and that is why she went ahead and took him, so I guess she had a good reason, but now I am left to make sure he understands that we aren’t quitting, we are just taking a “vacation” and I also had to explain to him why he doesn’t get to perform in the concert this weekend. He seemed okay with it. We’ll see.
Rules are Meant to be Broken…or Are They?
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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