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Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:14 am
by Radar
Teachers are only mandatory reporters when they are working in that capactiy. If I suspect abuse of one of my students or any student at my school I must report it. But lets say I am at my daughter's soccer game and I witness a child being spanked, it is not mandatory that I report that. I feel that this is because in the teaching role I see more and should have move info about the situation. Yet to randomly see a child get spanked, I don't know the whole situation. I don't have to approve but I don't know how that child is treated on an everyday basis. This is why it CMs are not mandatory reporters.
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:41 pm
by hobie16
Remember the scene in Kindergarten Cop where Arnold tries to talk to the abusive parent who then throws a punch? Arnold beats him to a well deserved pulp. If only real life was like the movies.
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:51 pm
by Big Wallaby
I blelieve in spanking as a form of punishment, but if you do it when you are angry at the child in question, it teaches them nothing but violence as the answer.
That, and if you do it hard enough to leave welts. But that's a whole different story.
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:29 am
by mechurchlady
thank you for the information on mandatory reporting.
I believe spanking is ok if you do it as punishment and you are not angry. I wish that CMs could spank with a paddle some parents who put down their kids and make their lives miserable.
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:14 am
by ktulu
I do not understand how one could be a bad parent. I did not have the greatest up bringing, but I saw what was right and wrong. Now with my little girl, there is no way I could hurt her. Heck, I feel bad when I put her in time out and she cries. I know it is so she will learn, but it still makes ME feel bad.
I agree with the CM's being able to spank bad guests, but then you would have the creepy guys going up to the princesses "Hey Cindy, I've been a BAD boy...", but then she just calls over Guido to hand out the beating, errr spanking.
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:08 pm
by LucyintheSky
Yeah, I loved when I'd be closing Dumbo, standing in front of the entrance, and some SG parents would be yelling at me to let them in line. I would explain that the park was now closed, and the people in line were there BEFORE closing time. I would invariably hear, "But this is Jr.'s favorite ride! He's been looking forward to it all trip, and this is our last night!" I would still refuse, and then comes the, "Well THANK YOU for ruining our child's whole trip!!!" Most of the time I did feel sorry for the kids, but if I let them in, there'd be 50 right behind them wanting to get in line too... AND I'd be thinking, Okay, if Dumbo was SOOOOO important to your kid, maybe, just MAYBE you should have gotten here a little sooner than 2 minutes after closing on your last night here!!! Real smart, and then they want to blame me. :mad:
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:51 pm
by Princess Susi
LucyintheSky wrote:Yeah, I loved when I'd be closing Dumbo, standing in front of the entrance, and some SG parents would be yelling at me to let them in line. I would explain that the park was now closed, and the people in line were there BEFORE closing time. I would invariably hear, "But this is Jr.'s favorite ride! He's been looking forward to it all trip, and this is our last night!" I would still refuse, and then comes the, "Well THANK YOU for ruining our child's whole trip!!!" Most of the time I did feel sorry for the kids, but if I let them in, there'd be 50 right behind them wanting to get in line too... AND I'd be thinking, Okay, if Dumbo was SOOOOO important to your kid, maybe, just MAYBE you should have gotten here a little sooner than 2 minutes after closing on your last night here!!! Real smart, and then they want to blame me. :mad:
And you gotta know that it is NOT their last night there or they have already taken Junior on before and they just want to get on because they see other people in line. If they really did wait til the last minute of the last night they were there and this is Junior's favorite ride, then boy, they sure love their kid, don't they? If they are that big of nincompoops and I believe some SGs are, then I feel bad for the kid, but the parents deserve a good swift kick in the a$$ or whatever...
You can bet they went on all *their* favorite attractions before the last minute of the last night! Some people should not be allowed to breed. Ever. :mad:
sues
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:53 pm
by joanna71985
Oh man, I get so much grief when I work with the characters. It never fails, it seems everytime I get "oh just one more" or they have to argue because the line is closed. I have been told "you crushed their dreams", "you made them cry" ect ect.
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:03 pm
by EmptyCinema
joanna71985 wrote:Oh man, I get so much grief when I work with the characters. It never fails, it seems everytime I get "oh just one more" or they have to argue because the line is closed. I have been told "you crushed their dreams", "you made them cry" ect ect.
Of course it's your fault that they decided not to get in line until the last minute, hoping it would die down. And it's your fault that they forced the kids to ride rides the kids didn't want to ride when they could've been meeting characters. You work at Disney just to crush their little tiny dreams, right? :) Oh, that and the pay...
That being said... there was a great CM who let us slip into a closed line because of a problem with another CM (and he had closed the line WAY too early, or so he said)
Re: Dealing With SG Parents
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:16 pm
by Shorty82
joanna71985 wrote:Oh man, I get so much grief when I work with the characters. It never fails, it seems everytime I get "oh just one more" or they have to argue because the line is closed. I have been told "you crushed their dreams", "you made them cry" ect ect.
You work with characters? That's what my brother does, except he works in all the parks, not just MK. He has told me about an SG cussing him out in Spanish who he had escorted out of the park by security and a woman who after being told no by him hit her head on a light post
on purpose and had a seizure. There's probably a bunch of other SGs he's dealt with he hasn't told me about.