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Also, in the grand scheme of things, bad teachers generally do NOT harm your child or hinder their education.  We all have had bad teachers in the past.  Learning to deal with them is also an important part of school.[/quote]

here, here[/quote]

Sounds good until you come across a teacher who is just a total disaster for one of your kids.  We got to HS before this happened, and it's only happened once, but we got to the point where we told the school counselors that either they would transfer our son to a different teacher or we would pull him out of the school the following week - and not hesitate to let people in the community know why.

I'm sure that sounds very helicopter, but this teacher was beyond horrible.  She was an ugly, nasty person and a totally ineffective teacher.  I'm not sure why people fail to realize that the mental abuse that some female teachers inflict on their students can be damaging like the physical abuse inflicted by a Jerry Sandusky.  In each case, the natural tendency of school administrators seems to be to deny there is a problem and just hope the abuser and abused will go away, so they can maintain the school's image.

Obviously, that may not be relevant to the OP's situation.  It could, in fact, be the case that the teacher that she's worried about will be fine for her child.  One of our other kids actually had an ES teacher twice that other parents tried to make sure that their kids did not get, because they thought she was too strict and demanding.  Our assessment was that she was not warm and fuzzy, but that she knew her stuff and wanted all of her kids to learn, so we were fine with her style.   Our experience with the HS teacher was different; she did whatever she wanted to in class; ridiculed some students while giving others (invariably girls) pet nicknames; failed to keep office hours after school; failed to provide students with any resources to review what she had "taught" in class; and ignored whatever feedback the administration and parents had given her that her teaching methods did not work for a significant portion of her students.  [/quote]

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