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	Re: Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child? Posted by Linda on 3/06/08 I keep my door open anytime it is one child and me. On 3/06/08, denise wrote: ﷯﷯ > In this day and age, you are naive if you don't worry.  It ﷯﷯ > would seem that you are treading on very thin ice if you ﷯﷯ > decide to take on this child.  Is there any way you can ﷯﷯ > leave your door open so that there is no cloud of concern ﷯﷯ > created by working behind doors?  My room sounds just like ﷯﷯ > yours and I think about how difficult it would be to defend ﷯﷯ > oneself if ever accused of wrongdoing.  Yet the kids we ﷯﷯ > select generally need to be isolate from distractions.  I'd ﷯﷯ > have a real heart to heart talk with the principal before ﷯﷯ > selecting this child.  By the way, I keep my door shut and ﷯﷯ > worry constantly.  ﷯﷯ > On 3/06/08, Karen wrote: ﷯﷯ >> Hi!  I am a relatively new Reading Recovery teacher.  My ﷯﷯ >> room is an oversized 'office' (windowless) that branches ﷯﷯ >> off a resource room that is used at certain points during ﷯﷯ >> the day and empty at others.  I have been quite ﷯﷯ >> comfortable in this space.  I have never given a second ﷯﷯ >> thought to work one-on-one with a child here until a few ﷯﷯ >> days ago.﷯﷯ >> ﷯﷯ >> A supply teacher that was in the Grade One classroom was ﷯﷯ >> accused by a parent of intentionally banging a child's ﷯﷯ >> head into a table.  There were two other adults in the ﷯﷯ >> room who both said they didn't see this happen.  The ﷯﷯ >> parent basically wanted the supply teacher to be not ﷯﷯ >> welcomed back in the school -- principal refused to do ﷯﷯ >> this, though supply teacher has said that she doesn't want ﷯﷯ >> to ever go back in that class.  The supply teacher was ﷯﷯ >> directing the child to follow classroom rules which child ﷯﷯ >> and parent do not seem to like!  The parent/child involved ﷯﷯ >> are new to the school and we have since found out that ﷯﷯ >> they made other allegations at the previous school.﷯﷯ >> ﷯﷯ >> This child is most likely the next one that I will pick up ﷯﷯ >> for RR.  I am not sure that I am comfortable working with ﷯﷯ >> him in my current space.  Has anyone else ever had this ﷯﷯ >> kind of concern?﷯﷯ Posts on this thread, including this one Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child?, 3/06/08, by Karen. Re: Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child?, 3/06/08, by denise. Re: Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child?, 3/06/08, by Linda. Re: Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child?, 3/06/08, by suzy. Re: Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child?, 3/13/08, by Sarah. Re: Does it ever worry you to working alone with a child?, 3/21/08, by Denise.

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