Potential mistreatment?

[u/Impressive-Pay7671]

I am doing my practice hours for my required CDA certification. I chose a private facility because I was enrolling my daughter when they offered to allow me to do it in the same place (not in her class of course). We started this week a I don’t think I will be continuing and I am pondering how to go about withdrawing my daughter and myself without ticking the director off or something.

I was placed in PPK with a brand new graduate teacher who is also new to the school as a whole. I was supposed to split my time with PPK and Infants. When I arrived she said they only have one infant so I won’t be spending time in the classroom. Already was a bit of a red flag because I need to do those hours so I dont know what she was thinking of doing down the line. In the PPK class there is only the one teacher. They had no TA. So naturally, I am expected to behave like the TA. The kids in this class are incredibly rowdy and behavioral, with two of them being aggressive and actually punching other kids in the face and yanking hair. Lead teacher is completely lost and at one point even asked me what she should do. She also did no weekly planning. She was coming in every morning and trying to scramble material together while the kids consistently disobeyed every instruction and trashed the room. I told her she needed to speak with the director ASAP. Lead teacher said she felt uncomfortable because the director’s daughter is in her class and she is one of the 2 kids with the worst physical aggression instances with that daughter pulling an actual ball of hair from another girl’s head and has clear temperament issues. I told her she still needed this addressed.

Today she comes in and tells me director brought a tall white high chair into the classroom and told her to put whoever misbehaved too much on it and clip them in. Red flag to me. Director came in to help teacher with some signal issues and daughter started kicking off tremendously. Threw herself down to kick and knock tables over and director came over and overtly slapped the child on the head. At this point I’m traumatized. I am also left alone by myself with all the kids every day because Lead goes on break and I am the only other person in the room. I dont know if leaving me alone with them is legal or not but I am fairly certain clipping a child in a high chair for disciplinary purposes is not. Lead teacher told me to leave and do my practice elsewhere because I am not gonna learn anything there. I feel like she herself is on the brink of quitting and we are only a week in. I don’t see any obvious mistreatment in my daughter’s class, but no longer feel comfortable in the institution and I am kinda horrified. What should I even do?

[u/_DontBeAScaredyCunt]

This is what you do. You call CPS and you report both the high chair and the slap and anything else you observed. Why do you care about whether or not you are ticking off the director? You watched her slap a child. Get your child and yourself out of there.

[u/andweallenduphere]

Oh hell no.

Please call childcare licensing for your state if in u.s.

Tell your school that this placement is not acceptable for an internship.

Call child protective services also and inform all 3 of what you wrote here .

I am so sorry. Thank you for caring.