My 16 yr old daughter works at a day camp for the summer. This is her 1st summer. She has 4yr olds. There are 3 girls in the room and 10 kids. Anyway..she had to go to training before camp started and one of the days was dedicated to child abuse.
On this past Wednesday she noticed on one of the boys back there was all bruises. Now she has helped this boy before get his shirt on after pool time and such and never noticed any bruising. She was shocked and lightly asked him if they hurt, he said no. She asked him if someone hit im at the camp, like another child, he said no. She asked him if his mom hit him..he said yes. She just fluffed it off and said to him to put his socks on and she will help him tie his shoes. She basically changed the subject.
Now, as she was instructed, she told her immediate supervisor who is about 18
She said oh we can't jump to conclusions. When the kids mother came to pick him up the girl that puts the child in the car just tells the mom that he has bruises on his back and wanted to let her know that it didn't happen at camp. The mom told the girl that he has Mongolian Blue Spots. (would have been nice if she told the camp that) and that was the end of it.
Ok just now I get a text from my dd and she said that she just had her evaluation and they have a scale from 1-10 ..1 bad, 10 good. She got all 9's except for the issue with this kid..she got a 7. They told her that she handled it in an unprofessional manner and she should not have asked the kid any questions. She told them that she did what she was told to do in the training. So now she is upset because she did what she was told to do and she got a low grade for it.
Did she do the right thing?? I don't know.
