A mother from Texas put a special note in her 5 year old son's lunchbox when he went to daycare. The note said, "Please telll [my son] that his mommy loves him so much and I'm thinking about him :) Thank you!" When her son got home from daycare, she opened the lunchbox to find the note she sent with an upsetting response from the daycare employee. The response was " NO! Put him on a diet + GO AWAY!" The mother couldn't believe what she saw, so she kept re-reading for a minute it until it finally registered. The 5 year old is a very picky eater and his mother has introduced some healthy options in his lunches, she said she just wanted to make him smile at lunch. An employee, who works at the place where this incident happened, admitted to writing the note and was fired. To read more click here.
Questions:
1. How would you react if a daycare employee wrote that message on the note and sent it back home?
2. Do you think firing the employee who admitted to writing the note was the right decision? Why?
Answer:
My first reaction would definitely be shock, just like the mother, then I think it would turn into anger. I would be angry because the daycare is supposed to be supportive but instead they were the opposite. I don't know if she should've been fired or just have the manager talk to them and maybe have someone else in the room with her so it doesn't happen again. But I can understand why the mother would want her fired because that message was rude and she should not have wrote it.
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Well done Josie!
I would be very upset and turn it in and hopefully she would be in trouble and have consequences. Nobody knows what is going on in their life and nobody deserves to read that note after a long day. I think firing her was definitly the right decision. She really messed up with writing this note.
I would be very confused if this was a prank or some other kid did this and once I found out that it was someone who worker there I would get anrgy because thats not something a darecare should do. I think it was very dumb of the employee to write that because there was no point in doing that just to try and make them feel bad, so it is good he was fired
If this happened to me, I would call the daycare and tell them about it. I wouldn't ask for her to be fired, but I would understand why if they did fire her. I think the company choosing to fire her might have been a little harsh, considering that she admitted to writing the note.
I would be very shocked and upset, for someone to work at a daycare I'm sure they see a lot of sad things between families and to see something sweet like the note that the mother wrote to her son that should bring joy. I think everyone has hard days and people make bad decions sometimes, so I don't think firing her is the correct way to deal with this. I think she should talk to the mother and apoligize.
I would be incredibly upset with the employee, because you aren't supposed to be this rude considering you are trying to be nice. I think it was, they could be a bad influence on the young impressionable minds there, and they were being very unprofessional.
I'll react maybe in a bad way, but not in an extreme measures because that isn't mature. Yes, because Daycares or any job is against harassment and I think this was a form of harassment.
I would go and talk to her in person because what she said was very rude and disrespectful to the child and the mother who wrote the note, she was basically calling the kid fat by saying put him on a diet. Yes, I think that was the right decision because she had no reasoning to do that and it was immature.
I would confront the employee and would talk to the owner of the daycare to ensure the employee was fired. I think that it was the right decision. Evidently this employee isn't mature enough to work with children and their actions prove that point.
I think I would be very upset with the daycare because I had put my trust in them with my child while I am away at work or somethng else. Do you think another place would hire her, or figure out what she had done with this note and decide to not hire her?
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