Should I report this?
A “teacher”( I put it in quotation marks bc I don’t think that person deserves to be called a teacher)at my center has been talking to children in really harsh ways. She once told a crying baby to cry himself to sleep. She told a child that was refusing her bottle to starve to death. She screams and yells at the children. She told a child that she’s ridiculous because she won’t sleep and she grunted her teeth and spoke to children in an angry tone. I confronted her about the bottle situation and I told to never speak to children like that again but she’s continuing. Leadership knows about it and has spoken to her. Her behavior did decrease a little but she’s increasing now. What’s scares me most is that she’s more hostile towards infants and toddlers and she recently got a freaking promotion to assistant teacher. I feel absolutely angry and terrified because she keeps yelling at the kids and the kids are scared of her. I hear them crying all the time over the half wall. I wanted to talk to leadership about this but considering they had the nerve to promote her is absolutely sickening. And by the way, she can’t be in that room by company standard because she’s dating the lead teacher. So I feel that I should report her to licensing….. Because it just keeps on going and going. But I never made a report before and honestly I’m scared. I have PTSD when it comes to making reports so it’s been hard for me lately. I don’t want to put my personal information because I don’t want the director to find out I reported someone without speaking to her first. But I also don’t feel comfortable talking with the director. I know they say it’s anonymous but I’m still scared. And I’m scared they aren’t gonna believe me and what if I get trouble because they think I made a false report? I’m honestly torn inside but I really need to do something