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So anyone who knows much about me knows how much I love sign language. Well it was absolutely amazing that I would have the opportunity to be an assistant for a teacher of the deaf and work in the preschool class. I was loving the whole experience. It was amazing and then suddenly...I realize the woman I am working with is NUTS!!!! Okay, maybe nuts, nuts. But let me tell you what this woman had some major control issues. That's all I'm trying to say...CONTROL ISSUES! She claimed to be all about the kids being independent and learning to do things on there own. Bla, bla, bla! She wanted them to be independent exactly like she wanted them to be...eat the apple this way, sit in the chair this way, wear your coat this way, color this way, have your hands this way when you wash them, and on and on and on! Let me just profess this woman had been teaching for way too long and to want to control her students in a way that she wanted them to do something exactly the way she wanted them to do, but by themselves, I kept thinking to myself....WHAT ARE YOU DOING TEACHING PRESCHOOL KIDS!!!!!! So dumb! It got to the point though that the woman ended up doing something that was completely inappropriate. She was not only controlling, but extremely physical in her control also. Well, you can only be careful for so long before, "SMACK" right on the child's face. I missed it, but two others saw that slap and I sure as heck would not put it past her to have done it. Needless to say, she did not finish out the year and before anything was officially resolved she quit and got a different teaching job! Sorry, she should have known that after working for 3 1/2 years with parents who had lost their children because of neglect and abuse you think she would have known better than to attempt anything while I was there. Little scary what people will do. Any how, I finished the year basically as the teacher. That is when I realized that I could actually be a very good teacher. I got more compliments on how natural I appeared to be and how good of a teacher I would be. It was the first time that I ever actually saw myself doing something that was career wise. I struggled for such a long time with what to do since I did not get married until I was older. I was so close and then I saw myself as this amazing teacher that parents would request and students wanted to have! I knew I needed to be a teacher! So I up and changed my major from social work, which I had one year left, and switched to Early Childhood Education! I continued to work and that next year I would be working with someone who was brand new to the agency and so no one knew her. Was she going to be nuts like the first teacher, would she be great and I would learn so much or just okay and then question if I really did want to do education????

Stay tuned and find out what happens......:)