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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I think it's in the best interest of both student and the school for our kids to have a good match in a teacher, agree? I was so disappointed this year, I've considered sending my kid to private.. which is ridiculous given the cost of living here.

DS will have much better scores with a better matched teacher who he actually learns from. [/quote]

I think you have to be realistic. Public OR private, your child is going to have had over 50 teachers by the time they graduate high school. There's just no way that you are going to get a slam dunk every year. As PPs have noted, you can try to request teaching styles. You can also really try to communicate with the teacher in a collaborative (not critical) way about what strategies work well with your student.

Having said all this, there is always the exception to every rule. There was one notorious teacher at my kids' elementary. For whatever reason they couldn't/wouldn't get rid of her. She taught 5th grade. I never made a single teacher request for either of my kids throughout elementary school. However, I told myself that if one of my kids ever got assigned to this teacher--I'd ask for the transfer. Any other teacher in the 5th grade, but not that one. I purposefully didn't make a whole lot of other requests/demands while we were there, because I knew that I wanted to be able to make that request when the time came, and I would have built up good will in the meantime, by not being a super finicky high-maintenance parent.

Turns out, my kids didn't get that teacher (whew!) but I advise everyone to keep their complaints in perspective. Save these kinds of requests for when you'll really want/need them, and don't use up all your good will with the administration before then.[/quote]

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