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[quote=Anonymous]We had a weird situation with our kid in 6th, where formerly all 4s tanked to 2s and 3s in math — 20+ points lower than previous years on jumprope (at least in middle school they update the percentage continuously in jumprope).

Teacher and vice principal asked us to take our kid out of screened program for 7th because they were not bright enough.

We declined, but got a tutor and our kid also started RSM (and, weirdly, loves it), and kid is back in the mid 90s in math this year. RSM teacher and tutor seem confused about what the problem was last year. Seems to be a math teacher-specific problem, because all other grades were good last year too.

So yeah, a bad teacher can cause chaos. We didn’t go ballistic at the school, although I suspect we pissed off the VP when we declined to pull our kid from the screened program over a bad year in math.

We did tell the kid to work harder and lean into getting help because I feel like this is a situation that will repeat itself in college and HS and even in careers, so they may as well learn how to deal with it. Also need learn how to deal with and overcome adversity/unfairness and keep self esteem intact when dealing with someone who is bad at their job or doesn’t like you.

Fingers crossed our approach has worked. Now that math is largely sorted out, we already had a tutor in place for SHSAT prep, which has been helpful.[/quote]

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