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When Jan comes to pick up Suzie she loves to hang around and chit chat in a gossipy sort of way. Jan seems hungry for adult company. Four-year-old Suzie gets unruly as soon as Jan walks in the door and Jan manages to stay so preoccupied with her conversation that she doesn't notice. She also doesn't notice that her two school-age foster children are tearing up the classroom and running out into the play yard while she is talking. The teacher has a hard time being polite to Jan and still remaining in charge of her classroom.When George enrolled his three-year-old son John in the program, he bragged about how well behaved his child is. He also expressed worry that John would pick up "bad habits" from the other kids. Sure enough, John came home with some swear words and now George is out to fix the problem.
First George confronted the children his son pointed out as "the ones that swear." He has now taken to lighting into the parents of the children who John tells him are the ones "making him do bad things." It takes a lot of staff time to listen to George's complaints and try to ...