Stfn has vanished without a trace!
The last time I had seen her was when she had broken her tooth and borrowed 50 Euros from me. Since then there is no news of her. I did get a snippet of information from Mk and Ndn that her beloved grandmother passed away on Sunday the 19th April but that is all. Nobody in the school knows if we shall ever see her again. We are guessing we won't.
And precisely this makes me so infuriated. What a pathetic woman! Is she the same passionate creature who just two months ago was crying rivers and oceans over her group change as she could not bear to leave the babies in her group. Now even though she is getting a fairly fortunate chance of reuniting with the same babies and reuniting with the same friend-colleague-flatmate, she has not only placidly refused to accept the opportunity but also has been quite comfortably able to accept a new job offer somewhere else - minus her precious babies. Plus, she is not bothered in the least to inform the school about her inability to attend the school or at least give a brief call. She hasn't even answered my friendly mail which I sent her expressing my genuine concern for her health and personal loss. That mail was not official - strictly a personal mail.
Mks laughs at me now. "This is the woman you were singing tons of praises about. Bloody bastard. She can't even ring us to tell why she is not coming; and hey we don't need her to weave fine stories of how ill she was. She is not ill. She has most probably joined a new kindergarten and wants us to believe she was ill so that she gets to pick up her salary decently."
"The truth is she really was a good teacher -"
"- only if you could make her get up from those butts of her's."
When I was talking to Asy, she told me that when I was absent she used to do nothing with the kids - nothing at all. Just the morning circle song and that's it. Asy many times insisted that we could do something like talking about alphabets, animals, shapes, numbers etc the way I do normally, but Stfn would decline saying "No, she is absent. She has made the plan and I don't know what's in the plan so we can't do anything." She even refused to take the children out to the playground even though it was very sunny and cheerful outside saying there was no time to do so. Every single day, that Asy worked with her alone, Stfn remained seated comfortably with the children doing literally nothing and directing Asy to do the cleaning and serve lunch and change diapers and every other form of work. This is true with me as well; I myself had noticed that given the slightest opportunity, she chose to be with the kids, especially Nn, Mt or Onm and shamelessly left most of the work for me. That irked me a bit but I had chosen to be patient with her so didn't complain.
We all had noticed that both Nn and Mt behaved pretty well without her. She just used to baby them all the time. She had spoilt Onm too to quite an extent. Can you imagine, Onm is large sized boy and looks nearly 4 years old and is fully capable of behaving like one too, but Stfn used to carry him in her arms like a two month old for more than half an hour at a time for simple things like crying over a fallen spoon!
I am glad she has gone. I had started out with her on a genuine note, encouraging her, motivating her, relaxing her, giving her time to recover from her personal problems, supporting her and allowing her to do as she pleased but that was all in vain. Not that I am feeling bad because of this. If life repeated itself again I would do it again, knowing it would be of no use to me. I didn't do it to turn her to my advantage. This was just my character. But now I am really glad she has gone. Ever since Cl has left, I have undertaken the whole group's responsibility alone and carry out every single work of the group alone. She was with me for about three and half months but worked for actually only two weeks. Apart from those two weeks, she has never done anything in the group.
If anything she only created a rucus by sending parents away and bringing a shame on the school. She is fit to go. I don't want to see any more of her.
The last time I had seen her was when she had broken her tooth and borrowed 50 Euros from me. Since then there is no news of her. I did get a snippet of information from Mk and Ndn that her beloved grandmother passed away on Sunday the 19th April but that is all. Nobody in the school knows if we shall ever see her again. We are guessing we won't.
And precisely this makes me so infuriated. What a pathetic woman! Is she the same passionate creature who just two months ago was crying rivers and oceans over her group change as she could not bear to leave the babies in her group. Now even though she is getting a fairly fortunate chance of reuniting with the same babies and reuniting with the same friend-colleague-flatmate, she has not only placidly refused to accept the opportunity but also has been quite comfortably able to accept a new job offer somewhere else - minus her precious babies. Plus, she is not bothered in the least to inform the school about her inability to attend the school or at least give a brief call. She hasn't even answered my friendly mail which I sent her expressing my genuine concern for her health and personal loss. That mail was not official - strictly a personal mail.
Mks laughs at me now. "This is the woman you were singing tons of praises about. Bloody bastard. She can't even ring us to tell why she is not coming; and hey we don't need her to weave fine stories of how ill she was. She is not ill. She has most probably joined a new kindergarten and wants us to believe she was ill so that she gets to pick up her salary decently."
"The truth is she really was a good teacher -"
"- only if you could make her get up from those butts of her's."
When I was talking to Asy, she told me that when I was absent she used to do nothing with the kids - nothing at all. Just the morning circle song and that's it. Asy many times insisted that we could do something like talking about alphabets, animals, shapes, numbers etc the way I do normally, but Stfn would decline saying "No, she is absent. She has made the plan and I don't know what's in the plan so we can't do anything." She even refused to take the children out to the playground even though it was very sunny and cheerful outside saying there was no time to do so. Every single day, that Asy worked with her alone, Stfn remained seated comfortably with the children doing literally nothing and directing Asy to do the cleaning and serve lunch and change diapers and every other form of work. This is true with me as well; I myself had noticed that given the slightest opportunity, she chose to be with the kids, especially Nn, Mt or Onm and shamelessly left most of the work for me. That irked me a bit but I had chosen to be patient with her so didn't complain.
We all had noticed that both Nn and Mt behaved pretty well without her. She just used to baby them all the time. She had spoilt Onm too to quite an extent. Can you imagine, Onm is large sized boy and looks nearly 4 years old and is fully capable of behaving like one too, but Stfn used to carry him in her arms like a two month old for more than half an hour at a time for simple things like crying over a fallen spoon!
I am glad she has gone. I had started out with her on a genuine note, encouraging her, motivating her, relaxing her, giving her time to recover from her personal problems, supporting her and allowing her to do as she pleased but that was all in vain. Not that I am feeling bad because of this. If life repeated itself again I would do it again, knowing it would be of no use to me. I didn't do it to turn her to my advantage. This was just my character. But now I am really glad she has gone. Ever since Cl has left, I have undertaken the whole group's responsibility alone and carry out every single work of the group alone. She was with me for about three and half months but worked for actually only two weeks. Apart from those two weeks, she has never done anything in the group.
If anything she only created a rucus by sending parents away and bringing a shame on the school. She is fit to go. I don't want to see any more of her.
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