(((((Junerain))))),

I am so sorry that this has happened to you. As my daughter found out even with having her AA degree in Childhood development, that it's not the kids that cause the problems.....but either the parents, or the people you work with.

I understand how badly it hurts when people say things that are absolutely NOT true. With my daughter, she was working at a nationwied preschool/daycare center & was handling a little girl who had thrown a tantrum. The mother came to pick her up & my daughter took the girls hand to keep her from hitting another little boy that was between the girl & her mother. The little girl was still throwing a tantrum. Later, they claimed that my daughter had abused her & hurt her arm or shoulder when they took the little girl to the ER because she claimed she was hurt. It took a year of legal garbage & postponements before the judge finally ruled that the case never should have gone to court & there was nothing that my daughter was guilty of.....but the mother had blackballed my daughter from going back to the school telling all the other mothers to take their kids out of the school if it allowed my daughter to return. My daughter loved kids just like you do. She lives to relate with kids....always has........so I can completely relate with how you are feeling.

I however don't think that quiting your position at least now with the way you are feeling.....wouldn't accomplish making the statement that you want it to make. They would only look at the fact that you are angry about what happened & that because of that you decided to quit. I can almost guarantee that there would be no remorse on their part. Businesses just don't deal on the emotional level that we are feeling & really don't think you would receive the satisfaction that you are hoping for with quitting & then it will end up making you even more angry because you didn't get the reaction you were expecting.

Just a suggestion.......just hang in there with where you are while looking at the other position.....but don't do or say anything until you have something else lined up.....time enough will have passed that the anger will have passed that they know you are feeling.....& the leaving for another position will be much more favorable for you & for them.

Speaking from experience....leaving a position in the middle of being angry for being treated wrongly....just doesn't accomplish anything except for hard feelings all around.

Hope that everything works out for you to get into that other position....but sometimes God puts us in a position for a reason.....sometimes it's for the example we can be to others in spite of how we have been treated....not that we just have to take it without standing up for ourselves...but the way we handle ourselves in situations like that can serve as a wonderful example to others & can actually cause a bit of respect that otherwise might not have come.

Keeping you in my prayers.... Debbie