As someone working in childcare, there's an extremely good chance those signs were not directed just to you. We had 4 kids with the same backpack one summer. There was a mix up every week until everyone labeled their stuff.

I'd say there's no way this is real...but people these days, man...

I volunteer in my son's Montessori pre-k class 1x/week for 20 mins (reading or craft). For an approach to child development and classroom management that is steeped in order and calmness, its off-the-walls bonkers bananas all the time bc...small children. How stupid to the point of cruelty to be upset at the person who manages the kind of chaos only a room of tiny humans can create to find a sticker.

How is the last note "snarky" in any way? The teacher is offering common sense solutions to problems apparently multiple parents have.

The child is crying over a lost sticker when her mom comes to pick her up? It's likely the child completely forgot about the sticker about 10 seconds after having it stuck to her shirt and more likely that she didn't care about it at all until mom showed up and started freaking out about it. Or mom is overly strict and the girl started crying because she knew mom was going to lose her s**t over it being lost.

Op is being absolutely absurd. Preschool teachers are there to help the childs development and to ensure their safety and not to look after their toys. When I was a preschool teacher we only allowed own toys to be brought on rare occasions and even then there was a clear understanding that's it's possible they get lost or broken.

These types of parents are part of the reason I'm no longer a teacher. Your child is NOT special. And if you don't want something getting lost or ruined, it shouldn't leave the house....this stupid OP expecting the teacher to be responsible for this kid's toys and a friggin sticker. People need to stop breeding.

Jeez after five kids and one in kinder. Just don't think of anything coming back. Hence school clothes and jackets I know could be lost and end up at the free coat off at winter is okay . I am having to school my girlfriend because she's like I sent her with 100 dollar pair of gloves and they are gone. I told her well sorry but they aren't in the wrong here. She needed to hear this the op I mean and well my girlfriend haha.

OP - you're a moron. You sent your child with a LEGO build and actually expected that it would come home in one piece, from PRESCHOOL??? Yes, it's unfortunate. Did you learn ANY kind of lesson? Probably not, as you seem to think the world revolves around you and your precious little crotch goblin. YES - you label EVERYTHING, from clothes to backpacks/bags/ to ANYTHING you want to come back home. AND YES - giving parents a "head's up" on sickness protocol is something EVERY school (pre or otherwise) does. If your child is sick or has a fever, she stays home. Preschool is not your Nanny.

Entitled parents are the worst! The only victims in this situations are the children. Not their fault their moms and dads have zero common sense.

"CaN yOu LoOk FoR iT?" About a sticker, or a couple of lego bricks? Entitled mummy, YATA.

A sticker? Is this real?

Holy crapola lady! YTA 100 times over! Label your kids stuff, it’s not the teachers job to keep track of your kids stuff! Grow up and take responsibility for your child! SMDH

You aren't the only parent there. Consider a group chat to ask other parents if they got the wrong item sent home with their child. Label everything. And a sticker can fall off. You child was prob ok about it till you reminded/asked where it was. Legos missing? Good luck. And a parent chat can really help.

Kids bringing toys to school is weird. And then she expects the teacher to keep track of them?

What an absolute Karen likely about to raise the next generation of them. Goodness sakes

Yes, Karen, you are the a$$

I doubt the teacher was rude. I think the mother has simply interpreted her comments this way because she can't bear anyone disagreeing with her, or refusing to run around to obey her selfish whims.

I foresee this AH being the troublemaker the entire time her child(ren) is in school. Hers will be the perfect child who never does anything wrong. It will always be the other kid's fault and she will be the first to blame the other parents, teacher, and school for everything. As bad a being the AH, she is also a Karen.

She needs to take her child to a home daycare if she wants personalized care. Better yet, stay home with her. Go and look for the sticker yourself (if you have the time.) I'm surprised that the daycare would allow personal items like that. Maybe they should have this woman sign a waiver stating that if her child brings personal items the daycare and all of it's employees are not responsible for them. Let's stop and think this through.

Having taught Kindergartners, I can tell you that any parent who does not label everything (even colouring pencils), let alone jackets and water bottles, is an idiot.

When did it stop being a requirement that everything a young child takes to school be labelled with a name label? I remember the original fabric ones which later changed to the iron-on adhesive kind.

Clearly she feels targeted because she is the problem. Find a sticker? Find your brain lady.

K-5 school counselor here and students can lose track of stickers 2 minutes after they get them and we don't give them another. so while the signs may seem helpful, guidelines and policy needs to come in the form of emailed newsletters/reminders through school admin. but this sentence is poorly crafted and not representative of what happens over the course of a school day -- " For starters, it’s physically demanding as every day entails 8 hours of very active work, running around, picking kids up, what have you." if you don't know what pre-k teachers do, then go spend time in a school and find out so to write a more informed piece representative of both sides, not just what both sides think or have expressed about the issue.

I have two kids. One in daycare, one in kindergarten. There's no way any of them would be allowed in with their own hard toys. At both schools, kids can bring one (1) small, SOFT toy- something to cuddle with during nap time. And it's the kids responsibility to keep track of this one item...

The story is probably an one off amplified to create clicks.

No doubt YTA.

Just nuts🥜🌰

Wtf lmao

Teacher does sound a bit unnecessarily snarky….but it’s possible that whatever this teacher says that is not “yes, ma’am” to this parent is going to be perceived as snarky. At my kids’ childcare, when parent provided nappies we’re running low, the staff would write on the front of the nappy “MORE NAPPIES PLEASE!!” So that after a long day at work, quickly putting together a meal for an overtired kid and getting them ready for bath and bed I would be confronted with “MORE NAPPIES PLEASE!”. Not a time I wanted to be reminded, or a useful time to remind me. I had a chat to them and said I know it was supposed to be cute and funny, but could they just tell me or write it in the handover book instead, please? Far more useful and friendly.

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As a daycare worker, I do understand some of the stuff she wrote on the papers since I deal with that too but the teacher could have worded it a bit differently, less passive aggressive. Also I don't agree with the mother as well. In my daycare we are not liable for kids losing their stuff, but we do help keep a watch over them but it's hard if you have 30 more kids with their own stuff. Like if it's very important, don't give it wo your kid. (Had a kid that lost their heirloom at the daycare,!! We weren't even informed that it was an heirloom, nor that the kid brought it, only after it was lost)