I've got a teaching assistant on my Facebook because we go years back. She started in September at the local school my child attends and is definitely brilliant with the children. We had sports day Monday. She has most of the teachers on her Facebook now, So alot of local mums from the school can see her stuff and the teachers interacting with her. Ofcourse they are people outside of work and are allowed to have social media.
But what I thought was a shame was many of us were proud of our kids and that they got some stickers for coming in the top four places. My child got a second place. Many others got various ones for top places.
The ta shared her child came third and fourth. Again she's allowed to share and be proud. But Five teachers wrote comments on her status to tell her daughter how wonderful she is. What a star she was. Lots of kisses and hearts. One of them said she couldn't wait to hear her story about it today when she sees her.
Fair enough. But what about all the other kiddies who didn't get extra praise and now she has had that massive confidence boost and extra fuss all because her mum's working there. She will probably tell some of the other kids what the teachers told her mummy to say and the other kids will wonder why they were not praised.
I don't like it. I just think a part of being a proffesional is to treat everyone equally. I don't think extra messages with kisses is fair or appropriate.
Or am I just being petty. Can't stand to see children favoured because of who their mum is.