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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/teacherplacement on 2023-06-25 01:09:20+00:00.

I’m (19f) a teaching assistant at a preschool. We have 2 playgrounds, one small one by our classrooms that we use every day and a big one that we share with 2 other preschools on the same campus. We go to the big one twice a week. It’s always me, a teacher, and 15-20 kids.

My coworker and I used to sit at the front where we could see everything that was being used by our kids and the 2 gates in and out of the playground. My boss didn’t like that we talked instead of watching the kids (apparently you can’t do both) so she said one has to stay by the sandbox and one at the front.

Then on Thursday a little girl fell off our swing. She was fine but my boss is upset that she could’ve gotten hurt and says one of us has to be standing by the swing. I told her the swing is in more of a secluded area so if I’m standing by the swing and my coworker is watching the sandbox, the majority of the kids would be unsupervised and we wouldn’t be able to see the gate. She insisted that she knew what she was talking about and that we just don’t want to work so I told her to take a lap around the playground, think about what she said, and get back to me.

She’s pissed and is threatening to take away the raise and extra hours I was promised (not gonna happen but she’ll try real hard) so I wanted to know if I was the asshole.