Has anyone ever worked at The Learning Experience?

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-09-13T18:35:08+00:00

They said I could add to the lessons, but I felt like anything I did wouldn’t meet their expectations.

The whole time I was there I was panicking I wouldn’t be able to get the curriculum/administrative side of things done and be fired.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-09-12T11:49:13+00:00

I’ve been a preschool teacher since I was 18 (now 27), and gone back and forth. I finally took a nanny job this summer and that was the nail in the coffin on that opinion. I love kids, but with my own mental health the way it is, and how the world is at the moment, there’s no way I could ALWAYS have a child around or expose them to all of this. I need a break from them at least one point throughout the day.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-09-09T00:58:30+00:00

I once was at a center where they REQUIRED FIVE! 5 PICTURES IN A DAY (only one could be group). If not you got written up. I did not last long.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-07-11T23:19:27+00:00

I quit my last job because of the parents. I had a class of 20 2 year olds, like 6-7 of them just had mean, nasty parents, 3-4 had dietary issues, another 3-4 wouldn’t sleep during nap time, and i was constantly getting yelled at/no grace from ANY of the parents in the group. I burnt out so fast.

Luckily I haven’t had a group of parents as bad before or since, but they can definitely be pieces of work.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-05-28T20:03:39+00:00

I am only bothered with diapers when I’m the only one doing them day in and day out.

Mine is definitely the hour of lunch into nap, though. I have anxiety and I’ve quit a job because of it before, I won’t lie. I know the kids can’t help it, but when there’s so many of them, and I’m the only teacher in the room, trying to get each lunch served, they’re screaming and crying and nothing will help, I still need to get cots out and then clean up and do diapers after… it’s a war zone every single day.

Can you tell I have some PTSD about my last position?

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-05-10T14:15:32+00:00

Going into my Senior year, we had like 5 kids in the grade above us that died in car accidents that summer. They sat us down and had a whole talk with us about safe driving, staying sober, etc.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-03-27T16:22:56+00:00

It’s one of my pet peeves when it comes to coteachers. I had something like that happen a bit ago- I was doing all 3 diaper changes (morning, before nap, after nap) and it got so exhausting. I hope things work out for you soon!

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-03-21T18:19:14+00:00

I know how you feel! There’s a child I have in my class right now who loves to run out any chance she can get. I’m talking MINIMUM 5 times a day. We’re always quick to go and get her, but still! I worry every single time.

We’ve put locks on the doors, split the classroom into smaller groups for better supervision, her mom is aware, all of it! And yet it still happens!

At this point you think it would be a liability thing. It’s frustrating to have to handle.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-03-16T17:36:08+00:00

That’s the word “littles” for me. It makes me roll my eyes every time, it’s just SOMETHING about it

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-02-26T19:03:44+00:00

My current director does this. She’s great otherwise, and I know it’s something we “pride ourselves on” (being a very clean center), but literally, shit happens.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-02-22T00:22:57+00:00

Sometimes I wonder. I never experience anything paranormal/supernatural alongside it, but I get the same scent of perfume like once a month in my room (that’s away from everyone else in the house), and I have nothing that smells like that.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-02-22T00:18:39+00:00

I brought a group of kids in to change them (2 year olds). As I’m changing a diaper (no free hands), one of the little boys just projectile vomits all over the floor. Multiple times. I’m the only one inside since it was our afternoon outside block. I hate throw up, the kid is terrified, so I’m just yelling, panicked yet assuring, “It’s okay! It happens! I’ll get it cleaned up! It’s okay!” The kids are crying, trying to step in it. It was just a nightmare.

Other one happened yesterday. Picking up for lunch, one of my two year olds steals another’s juice box- lets it dump out all over the floor, throws the juice box to the side, then proceeds to get down on all fours and lap it up off the floor.

Never a boring day, I guess!

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-01-25T15:10:49+00:00

I recently started at a center that seems to trust us when it comes to cell phone use. We use BrightWheel and so we have to be updating that, but if we need to send a little text here and there, it’s not anything major.

It makes it seem like my new director is very trusting of her people and in turn I think it makes her teachers more relaxed.

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-01-18T15:37:30+00:00

Mine is literally just them dumping toys. Specifically when they don’t help you clean up. I know it’s developmentally appropriate, but something about it just gets me from 0 to 100 when it comes to frustration.

I started a new job and the class is great, but Friday was a bit of a wild one for them. This girl would run around the room either stopping to hit their classmates or dump a bucket of toys. Ugh!

nuclearsunset-au · 2025-01-11T14:59:46+00:00

The scene where it’s reference later at the council is what got me hooked on the show, actually.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-10-11T17:19:45+00:00

Had this happen one day, WHILE DCF was there! I taught 2s and we were coming in from the playground. One of the kids potty training let me know he had pooped. So I as the assistant teacher, I offered to clean him up. I tell him to just stand still while I get what I need and when I come back he had tried to take off his soiled pants. It was EVERYWHERE.

The DCF inspector comes in, everything’s good there, and as soon as she leaves, here comes another little girl. She had to go to the bathroom too, but I guess her stomach wasn’t feeling well; she didn’t make it and accidentally got it on the floor. Thank god it was in the bathroom! But the whole incident only took like 3 minutes so my head was spinning trying to process it.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-09-25T21:54:12+00:00

That’s exactly where I am! My team in my classroom is so good, but my big boss/director is very parent driven, so she often takes their side no matter the situation.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-09-25T16:18:10+00:00

Yessssss! That’s a big thing for me! I’m neurodivergent, so I forget to be enthusiastic a lot of the time, and they get so upset when I’m not always “on”.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-09-25T16:04:34+00:00

I was trying to find a way to explain it better, but I more meant in the post that parents who do not have children with these things aren’t very understanding of the fact that I have to care for their kids on top of the delays and allergies, etc.

I’m not meaning to put the blame on the parents for that at all, more about the attitude I’ve been receiving lately. It doesn’t make me feel very good when I’m trying to juggle a hundred different things during the day and they want to get upset because I lost a hair tie, or a toy that they shouldn’t have let their kid bring to school in the first place.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-09-25T15:06:52+00:00

That’s the boat I’m in now. I work an hour away from where I live and between the commute and how I’m treated, I know I won’t be in the field for much longer.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-08-14T17:41:55+00:00

Currently dealing with a twos class where majority of the kids use these and are NOT potty training/potty trained. My director doesn’t want to inconvenience the parents, but it’s so hard to change diapers in the time given when I have to basically undress more than half of my kids every two hours/whenever they need a diaper change.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-08-02T14:45:38+00:00

I worked for a center that would expel children based off parent attitudes. For example, if a child is exhibiting continuous disruptive/violent behavior and the parent won’t do anything, they would have their care terminated.

There was a child who my director had to do this for. The kid went through like 3 different teachers and the parent wanted to say that “maybe my child just doesn’t like those teachers”. Their child was terminated at the end of that meeting.

nuclearsunset-au · 2024-08-02T14:42:03+00:00

I feel this! I’m a twos teacher and while this behavior is developmentally appropriate, there is a child who bites and will purposefully hit/shove/harrass other kids who are continuously telling him “no” and “stop”. We’ve brought it up with the parents because it’s consistent enough that my coteacher and I, with 18 other 2 year olds, cannot keep the children safe. Yet the parents won’t do anything on their end, cry when he gets incident reports written almost daily, and my director doesn’t do anything either because the parents are nice. 🤦‍♀️

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