On Fri June 16, Ms. Nhu from AExceLearning called me right after she went to the Children’s World Preschool to see how William is doing there. She told me that she’s concern about 2 safety issues:
One is that William’s bed is right under the hanger; if that falls then it’ll be on top of William. I drop William off at school every day and watch him running to his bed but didn’t notice that. I knew his bed is right next to a table but didn’t notice the hanger is hanging above his bed from the other side of the bed. So the next day after that conversation, instead of just watching him running to his bed from the door, I followed him and sat by his bed, now it’s very clearly to me that the hanger is really over his bed! I felt really bad that I didn’t notice this before. So I told Ms. Cheryl who was in the room at the time to move his bed up away from the hangar.
Second issue is that, about 5:0 PM everyday the children will be in the big room waiting for parents to pickup. William just sits in the corner staring at his classroom door. The bathroom is between the big room and his classroom; which means he sits right next to the bathroom; it’d not be too much of an issue if the teachers don’t clean the bathroom at that time. But they do, they use Clorox to clean the bathroom everyday about 5:00 PM so William has been breathing that stuff everyday! Ms. Nhu said that is not good for William so she asked if it’s ok for her to take William back to his classroom so that he doesn’t have to breath that stuff. Mr. Gary said it’s ok as long as she tells the teachers that she’s watching William.
Today when I dropped William off at the daycare and had a little chat with Ms. Jennifer. She told me how nice the ladies from AExceLearning agency are, “she’s really nice that she took William to the back room (means William’s classroom) and spend 30 minutes with him there”, “William loves to sit at this corner to stare at his classroom”. Now that I know the exact location where my boy sits, I felt so sad just to imagine William sits there everyday and no one cares to pull him away from the corner that’s full of toxic smell!
I don’t blame the teachers at the daycare, they have to watch quite a few children and have to clean up at the end of the day; they already have their hands full so they don’t have time to care for an Autism boy.
For the first time, I really appreciate the presence of the AExceLearning staffs at the day care to watch over William!