Open Question: CAN I COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT??!!?

I worked at a daycare for 10 months. Its in a basement of a church. I run an 18 month year old room. There is a child who is too old for my room and beats on the little ones all the time because he can, because he is bigger. Today i brought this to the directors attention and told her it was a state regulation. I was perfectly nice about it and she got soooooo defensive because she thought