>>There's a trick that works for some but not all people. Try talking to the adults with exactly the same phrasing you use for the kids, in regards to responsible borrowing of items. If they bitch, point out that 1) evidently they have not learned the skills so need a reminder, and 2) they can't teach what they don't know, so they need to practice it in order to teach it to the kids.<<
Nice, but it's hard when they're just straight up not admitting that the items were supposed to be for your program in the first place. Also, these lanterns are so nice they were having trouble stopping the volunteers from yoinking them to the point that they had to be kept in a paid staff member's office. Which, big yikes, y'all, are you effing kidding me? I might recommend it to the allstaff runners if the lantern bogarting by random staff continues in 2022. I'm fairly hopeful I can get the lanterns returned to the custody of the accessibility program.
>>I've seen my mother shut up a room full of arguing teachers and administrators by turning off the light.<<
Heh, very nice. Usually, enough of the adults are accustomed to paying attention to one of the methods we use to get the kids to pay attention that that's good enough.
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Re: Intelligence is confusing
Date: 2021-07-02 11:03 pm (UTC)Nice, but it's hard when they're just straight up not admitting that the items were supposed to be for your program in the first place. Also, these lanterns are so nice they were having trouble stopping the volunteers from yoinking them to the point that they had to be kept in a paid staff member's office. Which, big yikes, y'all, are you effing kidding me? I might recommend it to the allstaff runners if the lantern bogarting by random staff continues in 2022. I'm fairly hopeful I can get the lanterns returned to the custody of the accessibility program.
>>I've seen my mother shut up a room full of arguing teachers and administrators by turning off the light.<<
Heh, very nice. Usually, enough of the adults are accustomed to paying attention to one of the methods we use to get the kids to pay attention that that's good enough.