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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you do when there is a teacher known for being awful in instruction and expectations?  When in the same subject there are huge differences in the amount of work, the lack of actual instruction (kids expected to basically TEACH themselves the material) than the same course by other teachers.  Particularly, when this reputation is known far and wide and has been a problem for years.  When the class average on tests is consistently in the 60% range.  And this is not due to the intelligence or lack of work on the students' part, straight As in all courses and certainly capable of the subject matter and would excel in the same course/different teacher.  And, when more than 1/2 the class is cheating on tests to try to get by and encouraging it to others--and the student is upset by that fact but not a rat and not a cheater so obviously won't do it too.  And kids are dropping the class like flies after the first few weeks of school when it's an appropriate level and they would succeed in the same level course with a different teacher.

Any recourse?  Does anyone have that at their school--a teacher with tenure that they obviously aren't going to terminate but know it's a big problem?  Trying to be diplomatic, but severely pissed we pay $ for this kind of crap.  [b]I'd expect it in public school but not a private.[/b]  And, kid has never in his entire academic career ever had a problem with any teacher (even tough ones) and just soldiered through.  It's not a matter of the teacher just being 'tough and grades harder', it's a matter of incompetence.  [/quote]

Why would you expect this in public school but not private school? I have kids in both public and private school and there are dedicated, fantastic teachers as well as horrible teachers in both.  And clearly from the responses you've gotten here in this forum there are plenty of these types of teachers at private schools.  Yes, it sucks for both public and private school students who get these teachers.  It happens at college as well - you'll be paying even more for that and you will have absolutely no control over the professors (or in many cases TAs) that your kid will get. With bad teachers, my kids just taught themselves (lots of internet videos) and worked together with other students to figure out the material.  My oldest became quite good at helping other students after his experience and he now works at his college's student math and stats learning lab providing additional help and tutoring (provided to student at no charge).  Turns out there are plenty of PhDs who are very smart people but terrible teachers and the colleges know this.[/quote]

Private institutions have more leeway in firing.  The government and county government do not.  Strong teacher unions in some places make it almost impossible to can a public school teacher.

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