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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We went through this is in 4th grade. It was not a grading issue but a skills issue, i.e., regressing in maths competancy.

I sought out the principal and the principal and another admin seperately observed by child's class -- both for my child and any larger issues. I'm not sure the full extent of what happened but the principal jumped in and took over some of the teaching and a teacher (there are two per classroom) did not return for this academic year.

There was a chance my child could be in the same teacher's (the second of the two) class in 5th grade and we received a committment from the principal that my child would not be assigned to the same teacher. That commitment held.[/quote]

I'm glad your school admin has the students' interests in mind.

I know I will get the typical rude DCUM comments for saying this, but OP you have to be proactive over the summer and next year and commit to teaching a lot of the grade level math at home yourself because you cannot predict when you will get a bad or lazy teacher. Singapore Math workbooks, Kumon/Mathnasium live classes, Beast Academy, Khan Academy or whatever you think is the best fit for your kid. We had a bad lazy teacher one year where almost nobody in class was achieving grade level fluency. The kids who were unaffected were the ones already on some kind of parallel homeschooling routine or who had been accelerated by their parents over the previous summer. Everyone else was up in arms. The teacher didn't return the following year.[/quote]

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