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[quote=Anonymous]How many 4th grade classes/teachers are there at your school? It’s not a big deal for a child to have different teachers for different subjects when that’s the format everyone is following, but one class having 3-4 different teachers while all of the other 4th grade classes have the same teacher all day will eventually lead to things falling through the cracks. You can’t have a parent volunteer take over the teaching, but it would be great if there was a parent liaison who could be looped in to the 4th grade team’s plans and the school’s secretary to ensure that parents of this class receive communication about all upcoming school events and special projects and receive all of the handouts the other classes are receiving.

I really sympathize with your child’s class. Last year, dd was in 8th grade. Her science teacher left in October. For the first couple months, there wasn’t even a substitute; various other teachers took turns babysitting the class during their planning periods. After that, they had a rotating cast of daily subs for another few months. They didn’t get a long term sub until 4th quarter and she had no experience teaching 8th grade science, so she gamely attempted to help the kids with assignments, but she didn’t provide instruction. DD had no science instruction for more than 3/4 of the year. Her class just had to complete assignments without having been taught anything. They’d hear about experiments taking place in the other 8th grade science classes, but they didn’t get to participate or even observe any of them.

I don’t know what the answer is, but we’ve got to address the teacher shortage.[/quote]

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