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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand this hatred of first year teachers.  The three best teachers I ever had were all first year (one in ES and two in middle school).  They had the most energy and enthusiasm and I found that some teachers I had who had been there for 20 seemed burnt out and jaded.  Even in the eyes of an 8 year old.[/quote]

OP here. I would not use the word hatred for my feelings. It is more like trepidation. A brand new person is likely to make more mistakes than an experienced one, and I worry those mistakes will be made on our children. The whole point of my post is to find out the positives in the situation. I am glad to hear you had three good experiences.[/quote]

Sorry I shouldn't have used the word hatred.  I was thinking of all of the threads about this recently.  I understand your trepidation but I think that teachers of any experience make mistakes, just different ones.  [/quote]

It's your job as the parent to bring up any concerns you may have with the teacher.  DD had a new teacher last year and DD wasn't keeping up with her work.  She was the most advanced in her class and to her it was just busy work and she didn't want to do it.  DD was still getting A's on all the work she was doing and the teacher knew she could do the work and didn't grade the work she didn't do.  I told the teacher to give my child zeros because that's what she had earned.  She needed to have consequences to her actions.

DD's third quarter grades weren't great, she had a C and some B's and her progress report for the fourth quarter was even worse.  DD worked really hard and finished off the second grade with one B, one Above Grade Level and the rest were A's.  I don't think DD would have worked so hard if I hadn't told her teacher to give her the grades she earned.  All three of us learned from the situation.[/quote]

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