Problemas con Somos Hijos Del Lago

1) The center does not have enough money or trained staff. I have talked about this issue before. There is one teaher, a secretary, and a linguistic or physical therapist of some kind. And then volunteers. All of whom could or could not be registered sex offenders because they don´t do any sort of background check. Oh, and the volunteers have no traning, either.

Regardless, there are other problems with this center that have nothing to do with lack of money. Here are some more observations-

2) Poor management of time almost ALWAYS. The teacher and secretary spend the first 30-45 minutes cleaning the floors. Hey, I understand, the floors are dirty. But these guys could a) do this the night before, or b) get the kids to help and learn some life skills in the process.

3) No Life Skills taught! When will these kids need to know to color inside the lines? Ok, I guess motor skills or something? But there is no motivation for anything else. Some of the people are writing but if they are writing something incorrectly, they are just left to keep making the same mistakes over and over. If you are going to teach people to write, really TEACH them. Also teach them some basic hygeine, how to prepare food, stuff like that. Playing games all day long is fun, but ultimately more debilitating.

4) I do not want to spend an extra hour taking kids home while you sit in the office and talk. I know there are days when I´m the only volunteer. But I was mad as hell the other day when this happened. This is not how you treat the volunteers that you depend on. You are perfectly capable of taking kids home as well, and I have no idea why you did not, maestra.

5) Teasing kids never has a theraputic value. Not does letting them hit other kids, or try to pull down the pants of volunteers. There are times when all of these things have happened. There is never any sort of consequence for negative behavior. And that makes me upset, too.

Anyway, esa es la vida, si? In social services, you love the clients, hate the bosses. Wait, I´m not even getting paid for this. What´s my problem?