Previously our group had a separate sleeping room, a cosy little room lined with baby beds with numerous paper stars hanging from the ceiling. Then the departure of As brought about many changes and one of them was the shuffling which converted this sleeping room into staff room,, the old staff room became the science lab and a deep, dark, hideously interiored enclosed section of the gym became my new sleeping room which neither I liked nor did the children for a variety of reasons. For one, it gets a full load of noise from the children of the other group who also sleep in the same gym but outside the enclosure. And then it is so hot that the children get soaking wet with sweat. The enclosure in itself is so wildly made with fierce colors, irregular and jutting out beams and wedges and some dozens of criminal looking bats hung from the ceiling that should appear frightening to our little children.
I forgot to mention, the place was meant to act as a horror castle or some such thing several years ago when our school was a children's play place....!!
Well, yesterday the school received an email from some anonymous parents complaining that this new sleeping place be changed to the previous one as the children are unable to sleep in it.
We are surprised who could have sent this email. I feel my parents cannot complain because all the children in my group sleep well enough. The only child who has difficulty falling asleep is JL but then he is a new admission who started coming to this school barely 6 weeks ago so his parents can't even dream that our group once had a separate sleeping room. However my last year students who have now passed on to Mks and My's group don't sleep at all; they keep lying awake on their beds tossing and turning, and playing and talking in whispers all the time while they all used to sleep pretty well when they were in my group and I was in charge of their sleeping time.
I suspect it is Clt's mother who has complained. She was very particular that Clt should sleep well in school. Whenever I was on leave or on vacation, she never slept and always did when I was in charge. Her mother used to joke that whenever Clt doesn't sleep, she can correctly guess I must been have been absent from school. Now, the same Clt never sleeps. Her mother had even requested Mks once to try to make her sleep somehow as she becomes too tired by evening. That day Mks shouted at her to go to sleep, as a result, Clt being an extremely sensitive, shy and touchy child burst out crying and wept so badly that I had to step in to calm her down. She immediately responded to me and slept well for next two days - and two days only - then back on the same track...
The funny thing is her little sister Fd is in my group now. Fd was in the habit of being extremely active and playful in bed and tried her best to avoid sleeping but I ensured that she slept and so she sleeps nicely.
I forgot to mention, the place was meant to act as a horror castle or some such thing several years ago when our school was a children's play place....!!
Well, yesterday the school received an email from some anonymous parents complaining that this new sleeping place be changed to the previous one as the children are unable to sleep in it.
We are surprised who could have sent this email. I feel my parents cannot complain because all the children in my group sleep well enough. The only child who has difficulty falling asleep is JL but then he is a new admission who started coming to this school barely 6 weeks ago so his parents can't even dream that our group once had a separate sleeping room. However my last year students who have now passed on to Mks and My's group don't sleep at all; they keep lying awake on their beds tossing and turning, and playing and talking in whispers all the time while they all used to sleep pretty well when they were in my group and I was in charge of their sleeping time.
I suspect it is Clt's mother who has complained. She was very particular that Clt should sleep well in school. Whenever I was on leave or on vacation, she never slept and always did when I was in charge. Her mother used to joke that whenever Clt doesn't sleep, she can correctly guess I must been have been absent from school. Now, the same Clt never sleeps. Her mother had even requested Mks once to try to make her sleep somehow as she becomes too tired by evening. That day Mks shouted at her to go to sleep, as a result, Clt being an extremely sensitive, shy and touchy child burst out crying and wept so badly that I had to step in to calm her down. She immediately responded to me and slept well for next two days - and two days only - then back on the same track...
The funny thing is her little sister Fd is in my group now. Fd was in the habit of being extremely active and playful in bed and tried her best to avoid sleeping but I ensured that she slept and so she sleeps nicely.
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