I started a new job almost 3 weeks ago. A daycare teacher and my two children attend the daycare with me. They are 3 and half and 10 months old. Since starting the daycare they haven’t been doing well. We had to take this week off because they got sick. Which granted I know is a given because they’ve never been around this many germs before. However after taking my 10 month old to urgent care last weekend because he had pink eye to discover he has lost one pound since starting daycare.
I know this because a few days before starting he had his 9 month old check up. He’s not eating well and won’t drink bottles because he’s primarily breastfed.
My 3 year old isn’t doing well either. The teachers seem to be annoyed by him and his behavior. I know he needs extra help and the daycare isn’t the right environment for him which I have plans to help him in place but I’ve witnessed the teachers being a little rough with him and he has left the classroom with a mark on his arm they had no explanations for. He tried to leave the building. Which I do not believe but he did leave a classroom without the teachers knowledge. My director already told me from day 2 if this behavior continues he will no longer be allowed to attend as it’s a safety issue. Last week the director wasn’t at the center she was on vacation. A stand in director spoke to me in a manner I did not like. Claiming my son “doesn’t belong in a general education setting” and sent me home with my children on the day my son left a classroom.
Everytime I drop my children off in their classrooms they scream and cry for me. Which I know is normal but the teachers in the room don’t do much to comfort them. When they know I’m just down the hall.
In addition to all of this. I’m sensing a very toxic work environment where everyone talks about everyone behind their back and nobody is happy there. Which I also know can be common in this line of work but when you add your children to the mix. It gets scary. What would you do?
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I am a daycare teacher myself, and I would say just find a different daycare where you can take your babies and it’s a better work environment for you. Maybe a smaller one a private one or even a Montessori one if that fits your educational wants. as for the illnesses, it does suck, but I’ve read a lot that the first two years of a baby attending daycare are very tough, but it does build immunity

I am always team quit that mf job. It's never worth it.

This sounds so brutal

& that's part of the reason I opened a daycare in my home and the children that attends are with my children as well, so I make their parents do nightly screenings before they can come the next day. I try to keep the negativity and sickness out!! Employees talking ish is always gonna be in every workplace just don't put your input in. (That's when the drama starts)My children health is always first priority over money