I'd really like an explanation about this but don't want to approach the school as really it seems trivial but it is upsetting for my little girl.
She is now in year 2 but in reception she was one of the last to get the cherished class bear, in year 1 she was promised by her beloved teacher that she would get the bear early as she was one of the last to get it previous year. She was also told that every child in the class would get the bear. It never happened. So at the end of last year she was told by the teacher that because she hadn't got the bear at all that year she would be the first to get it this year oh and guess what, the two kids who got it first last year and the year before got it again this year.
So far it is teaching my daughter a very valuable lesson, teachers lie through their teeth and that she doesn't count in class. Way to go teachers. Her school reports have been amazing no one has every complained about her, they say she is a joy to teach polite and helpful, always getting certificates stickers and head teacher awards so what is it that she is doing so wrong that the school bear evades her. I did think of bringing it up with the school but it seems so petty, after all its a skanky old bear and personally I'm glad the thing doesn't come home with her, but there is so much oh it will be your turn one day darling that you can do. Two years is a long time for a child to wait when others are always picked before her. Her best friend had the bear for the third time this week and was gloating constantly about it, my poor little mite was gutted. She turned around to me and said mummy it really hurts to think about it now. Bless she has been so patient and understanding for 2 whole years but I think enough is enough.
Thanks teachers for helping to build a confident child who feels worthwhile about herself NOT and for making me have to deal with the fall out.
I have now created her own little diary with her little bears one bear gets to choose her every week and we create our own little diary just to help her through it. And before any starts saying oh she needs a real problem to deal with let me tell you what she has had to put up with so far:
Her grandma going through chemo - we moved in with her to help her as she almost lost her life through it and ended up wheelchair bound.
Her grandad currently living with dementia
Emigrating and having to leave behind her father and half sister who she adored
being homeless
losing a beloved baby cousin
being a child of single parent
So she has coped with a lot already, she still remains upbeat and bounces back but every friday when its not her again she just gets that little more despondent. So could a teacher explain why this would happen to a child.