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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks all, appreciate the feedback (and understand that my feelings were not realistic). We are at that point where we feel like there is nothing productive that can come from DS being with this teacher for the remainder of the year; it's that serious. In any other subject we would just shrug and move on but the foundational nature of math makes it hard to take that approach. Tutoring 1-2x a week doesn't seem good enough. We didn't want the meeting with the AP, but it was suggested by the counselor.[/quote]

If tutoring twice a week isn’t helping, this problem seems bigger than just a single teacher. [/quote]

It's mainly been 1x a week, took awhile to find a good tutor with availability. [b]The problem is the teacher literally is not teaching/providing zero instruction most days.[/b][/quote]

That is a very odd claim about a teacher and does not ring true at all.  [/quote]

OP here; I'd likely feel the same way if I read this but this is what has been reported by my DC (and others)...kids who in other subjects will clearly say we worked on xyz lab, teacher taught this. [/quote]

I believe you.  Quick question.  Is this teacher a follower of the Modern Classroom approach?  My DS had a teacher that sounds very similar to this one for Pre-Calc.  She literally never got up in front of the class and taught anything.  She used pre-recorded videos, sometimes of her, sometimes not, doing a few examples.  Then she would record herself filling out a notes packet while remaining seated the entire time.  They would do knowledge checks on the computer and could move on to the next set of videos in the Unit when they passed the Knowledge Check.  If you hadn't made it through them by the test, oh well.  He never scored above a C- on any of the tests.  It was such BS.  To retake the test, you had to complete the original test perfectly, do a remediation packet perfectly, then retake the test.  It was such an insane amount of work that if you did it, you were forever behind in a cycle of failure and remediation packets.  So most kids just took the Cs.  Complete BS.[/quote]

DP yes we are dealing with this in algebra right now. It is AWFUL and yes it takes the parents a minute to understand that the teachers are literally not teaching and sometimes not even ensuring that kids understand what they need to be doing to get through the syllabus.

OP is not wrong to want to address this separately with the administration but will probably have to also deal directly with the teacher too. Also OP should get together with other parents - this affects all kids not just SN kids. a lot of parents at our school are freaking about it and have made some headway in improving it a little but you need to get together. [/quote]

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