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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend’s DD just quit her fall classroom student teaching placement.  Badly burned bridge on her way out. She says the school is a bad fit and is requesting a rematch with another school. If not, she will have to repeat the current semester next fall when her sister will be a freshman. The family is unprepared for the financial load of two in college at the same time. The young lady also has a late June wedding planned. Her fiancé is military and her career plans hinge on where he is sent. My friend asked me, as a teacher, about options but I can’t think of anyone who quit their placement but stayed in the major. However, I’m a career-changer so we were all adults with prior work experience and a sense that all workplaces can be exhausting or have unpleasant coworkers, clients, etc. Maybe rematching is an established practice in undergrad Ed programs. Anyone BTDT?[/quote]

The department faculty who arranged the placement should be able to handle the alternative placement. This might be tough, depending on where they are in the semester. If they began the semester at the beginning of September, for instance, then it might be difficult for them to find a new placement so late in the semester.

During one of the earlier student teaching semesters - not the final immersion experience - another classmate and I requested a transfer to another classroom. The faculty accommodated that request, and there were no issues. It wasn't an acrimonious change, and we remained in the same school, just a different classroom.

Why did your friend's daughter burn bridges? Was there wrongdoing on the part of the cooperating teacher? That's the part that might create challenges for a new placement, if there are any.[/quote]

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