I Am a Daycare Teacher
Dear ____________ and ________________,
I appreciate the many years I have worked at ________________ as it is the place where I have made many wonderful memories. I was hired in 2014, and was assistant teacher to ______________ in orange room when she had six kids after school. The next three years I was put as assistant teacher in strawberry room, yet still I was never left by myself.
I believe that the _____________ state ratios can’t monopolize a concept as if all kids were generally the same. We can conclude that is not the case, all kids are different, with different minds, different desires, that one is not always able to manipulate. No books will say this, but if a child is not scared they will feel free to explore and do what they wish, things they don’t do when they’re scared. I can raise my voice, I have a great voice for getting loud, but because of my innate personality it doesn’t scare the kids, so some continue to just go wild. I do voices and personifications, seen when I read books, I try redirection. When I have kids go to time out, they literally just don’t sit in time out, I can’t force them or tie them to the wall in order to sit. I always wanted my role to be one as the soothing explanation to all the rules placed upon them. Children have a blank brain, they don’t know what is going on, or why they have to follow all these rules. They are only kids, and yet we are instilling standards and rules that will be placed upon them all of their lives. “Do what you’re told or I will.... or you will...”. “This child doesn’t do what I want, he has a problem he is _______________.” A lot of times kids need one on one attention, and in the rush of teachers having so many kids everything becomes mechanical and robotic. I don’t want to be the creator of robots who do things out of fear, I want to be someone who makes kids happy, who increases their self-esteem by listening to them about their day, not just forcing them to repeat and do all I tell them to.
My point that children do things out of fear can be noted in the adult world. We ourselves do things out of fear; fear of painful or negative consequences. Pay your taxes or the IRS will get you. Pay your bills or you’ll be homeless. Which one of us would do what we do even IF we didn’t get money from it, and if there was no threats, no fear? It can be seen in the plethora of religions worldwide, this fear as well. Follow God and you get heaven. Don’t do what God wants and you get hell. Do we genuinely “love” God, or do we really love ourselves in doing what is most convenient for us and will bring us the least pain? Fear and demand, that is life. We didn’t ask to exist, we didn’t make or choose our brain, body, the world, or what it contains, we chose nothing in the first place, but are forced to adapt through reward and punishment in order to survive in fear of death, painful consequences, and the desire for pleasure. Is that it? Is that all life is? That is why my natural personality is one where I laugh and try to make people happy. I act this way because of what I can philosophically see in this life. Yet I can instantly become serious and focused, and the “robot” others would like, but everyone is a human underneath the facade we try to put out of productive mechanical machines, useful for our function.
This is a world of business. A world of money. So I understand if it is most convenient to hire someone that can inspire the “respect” (fear) that will get kids to straighten up and listen. I can’t handle the kids by myself, and I will not label them as anything other than kids, they want to be wild and free. I do enforce rules, I am stern at times, very stern, but they know I have a kind, funny, and goofy side that I’ve shown them, the truth is that if someone doesn’t inspire fear, even as adults, you get walked over and ignored. I might never become a famous writer because I am not here to profit off of my words by sugar-coating things, but to write in honesty as I see it.
I was looking for a position as an assistant teacher at a school. Assistant meaning that I am not alone. To be an aid to the teacher in cleaning, picking up, etc. But most importantly to give a genuine smile to kids that will make them feel valuable beyond how functional they are found to others. Is there a deeper meaning to life than labeling others depending on how well they do what what we want? Are all ideas of love, compassion, patience, simply cliche because in the real world you either produce or you’re homeless? Maybe so. But it gives me the greatest pleasure known to man to write from the core of my being, because in the moment I write I feel genuine. Genuine for a moment, in a world where we’ve all learned to become actors.
If I didn’t have to pay bills money and hours wouldn’t cross my mind. Or at least I hope it wouldn’t. Since I need a full time job that is what I look for. As I have said before I do not want to be held out of pity, but if I am found convenient to you guys. If I am not, please, I do not want to be a burden, and I would suggest you find someone else who can fulfill your qualifications. I have no resentment whatsoever in my heart, I wish everyone the best, and would like everything to be done in good terms.
Thank you,
_____________________
I appreciate the many years I have worked at ________________ as it is the place where I have made many wonderful memories. I was hired in 2014, and was assistant teacher to ______________ in orange room when she had six kids after school. The next three years I was put as assistant teacher in strawberry room, yet still I was never left by myself.
I believe that the _____________ state ratios can’t monopolize a concept as if all kids were generally the same. We can conclude that is not the case, all kids are different, with different minds, different desires, that one is not always able to manipulate. No books will say this, but if a child is not scared they will feel free to explore and do what they wish, things they don’t do when they’re scared. I can raise my voice, I have a great voice for getting loud, but because of my innate personality it doesn’t scare the kids, so some continue to just go wild. I do voices and personifications, seen when I read books, I try redirection. When I have kids go to time out, they literally just don’t sit in time out, I can’t force them or tie them to the wall in order to sit. I always wanted my role to be one as the soothing explanation to all the rules placed upon them. Children have a blank brain, they don’t know what is going on, or why they have to follow all these rules. They are only kids, and yet we are instilling standards and rules that will be placed upon them all of their lives. “Do what you’re told or I will.... or you will...”. “This child doesn’t do what I want, he has a problem he is _______________.” A lot of times kids need one on one attention, and in the rush of teachers having so many kids everything becomes mechanical and robotic. I don’t want to be the creator of robots who do things out of fear, I want to be someone who makes kids happy, who increases their self-esteem by listening to them about their day, not just forcing them to repeat and do all I tell them to.
My point that children do things out of fear can be noted in the adult world. We ourselves do things out of fear; fear of painful or negative consequences. Pay your taxes or the IRS will get you. Pay your bills or you’ll be homeless. Which one of us would do what we do even IF we didn’t get money from it, and if there was no threats, no fear? It can be seen in the plethora of religions worldwide, this fear as well. Follow God and you get heaven. Don’t do what God wants and you get hell. Do we genuinely “love” God, or do we really love ourselves in doing what is most convenient for us and will bring us the least pain? Fear and demand, that is life. We didn’t ask to exist, we didn’t make or choose our brain, body, the world, or what it contains, we chose nothing in the first place, but are forced to adapt through reward and punishment in order to survive in fear of death, painful consequences, and the desire for pleasure. Is that it? Is that all life is? That is why my natural personality is one where I laugh and try to make people happy. I act this way because of what I can philosophically see in this life. Yet I can instantly become serious and focused, and the “robot” others would like, but everyone is a human underneath the facade we try to put out of productive mechanical machines, useful for our function.
This is a world of business. A world of money. So I understand if it is most convenient to hire someone that can inspire the “respect” (fear) that will get kids to straighten up and listen. I can’t handle the kids by myself, and I will not label them as anything other than kids, they want to be wild and free. I do enforce rules, I am stern at times, very stern, but they know I have a kind, funny, and goofy side that I’ve shown them, the truth is that if someone doesn’t inspire fear, even as adults, you get walked over and ignored. I might never become a famous writer because I am not here to profit off of my words by sugar-coating things, but to write in honesty as I see it.
I was looking for a position as an assistant teacher at a school. Assistant meaning that I am not alone. To be an aid to the teacher in cleaning, picking up, etc. But most importantly to give a genuine smile to kids that will make them feel valuable beyond how functional they are found to others. Is there a deeper meaning to life than labeling others depending on how well they do what what we want? Are all ideas of love, compassion, patience, simply cliche because in the real world you either produce or you’re homeless? Maybe so. But it gives me the greatest pleasure known to man to write from the core of my being, because in the moment I write I feel genuine. Genuine for a moment, in a world where we’ve all learned to become actors.
If I didn’t have to pay bills money and hours wouldn’t cross my mind. Or at least I hope it wouldn’t. Since I need a full time job that is what I look for. As I have said before I do not want to be held out of pity, but if I am found convenient to you guys. If I am not, please, I do not want to be a burden, and I would suggest you find someone else who can fulfill your qualifications. I have no resentment whatsoever in my heart, I wish everyone the best, and would like everything to be done in good terms.
Thank you,
_____________________
31-35, F
