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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, every single school has one or more (hopefully not many) of these teachers.

[b]If you're on child #2 or beyond, you actively work to make sure your kid doesn't get this teacher.[/b] If you are a newbie and unfortunately end up with him/ her, there is not a lot you can do about it, but you do get involved in the situation and get vocal if you have to.

Document and complain. Go to the division head with concrete proof about your points, not just accusations. Talk to parents of other kids in the class behind the scenes and encourage them to do the same. Most likely, you are right - the school will not do anything to help your child, but continued pressure on this situation may help another family/ kid in the future.

And in the long run, don't worry about it. Chances are your kid will have mostly amazing teachers throughout his/ her time at this school. One bad apple won't sink it all, although unfortunately, we've had the experience of a teacher so bad that she effectively killed my DC's budding interest in the subject. [/quote]

DP.  Very helpful post.

With regard to the bolded above, how do you make that happen 'actively work'?  If the school won't change classes just for a teacher, what avenue is there to prevent it from happening to 2nd/subsequent child.[/quote]

PP who wrote this. In our case, we went to the curriculum/ academic person of the division (the person who handles scheduling kids and their classes - not the division head) early on - as in, the spring before DC2 would be taking that particular course the following fall - and told this person point blank that we didn't want DC2 to have that teacher, because we as a family had such a bad experience with him/ her and DC1.  With four kids we've had to do this only twice, but at two different schools and the request has been honored.

Believe me, they know.[/quote]

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