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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you, PP. From what I understand, OP thinks the teacher is "bad" and should be fired for two reasons:
1. Teacher doesn't allow parents to be in the classroom.
2. Teacher thinks children should be quiet and doesn't accurately explain each student's personalities to a parent in a PTC.

How does she teach? Isn't that more relevant in terms of job performance? It just seems like a personality conflict to me. [/quote]

OP here.  If it's a "personality conflict", it's a personality conflict with numerous parents over multiple class years.  While I think it's a problem if a teacher can't think of a single positive thing to say about a child in their class to that child's parent, that's not the main issue.  The main issue is that the teacher has such poor interpersonal skills that a four year old child comes away knowing that the teacher doesn't like her.

It's actually pretty funny, perhaps she's overheard other parents talking, but we've never said anything negative around DD, but over dinner tonight, I asked her how their class went today, and whether everyone had a good day.  And DD said her teacher was in a good mood.  Actually, what she literally said was "You know, Ms ____ is a bad teacher, but she can be funny.  A boy got an answer right today, and she picked him up and spun him around."

Having said that though, I'd add a #3 to PP's list:

3.  Teacher has left multiple children in a class of four-year-olds with the impression that she doesn't like them.  I only know 10 or 12 four year olds personally, but frankly, in my experience you've got to work pretty damned hard to do that.[/quote]

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