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[quote=Anonymous]Had one year in middle school where a new teacher was hired who just clearly was not competent to teach the subject.  Not a bad person, just a terrible teacher.  We tried to use it as a teachable moment for our kid that for the rest of her life there would be people – college roommate, fellow cubicle worker, future boss, significant other of best friend, what have you – that would be almost unbearable to deal with and that learning how to be around people who don't bring much to the table and are annoying as hell is part of figuring out how to maneuver through life.  By middle school, a child needs to be able to start grasping how to deal with that concept.  It really dawned on my kid that year that she could learn to make the best of it and find ways to handle it, even if it meant she didn't learn a whole helluva lot in the subject that year (and yes, we did make an effort to fill in the gaps wherever we could).

That being said, it's a whole other ball of wax if a teacher is bullying or abusive – that's when you raise hell, but that's another thread. :)[/quote]

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