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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is in elementary school. She was born here. But Indian origin.
She is smart kid and wants to learn.
However she is always put on table where her back is against the board. Every time the teacher changes their place. She always get her back facing the board. She tried to tell teacher but the teacher said she will try next time she changes again.
I feel that the teacher is only paying attention to white kids. 
I spoke to my husband and he said to not think like that otherwise every time we will be thinking like that.
We just need to make our kids work twice harder.
So I asked my husband why? He said that how it is and in the long run she will come out to be the best and to ignore everything else.
Am I thinking too much?[/quote]

You are overthinking.
My child always had the worst seat in elementary like always. Always with the seat facing away from the board or next to the disruptive child or at the table with the children struggling to read. Well behaved smart white child who does not create any trouble and gets along well with everyone. We once asked a teacher why this was the case and she explained that this is exactly the type of kid who gets the worst seats because they do not need the better ones. DD never really cared.[/quote]

+1. My kid is a good student, and very engaged in class/on task most of the time.  She always gets seated near the disruptive kids.  She'll complain that one kid pokes her all the time; she asks to be moved and gets seated next to a kid who makes noises throughout the class.  Etc.  Teachers always put the non-distracted kids in bad positions because they figure they're the most likely to overcome the challenge.  (In your case, another kid might not bother to turn to copy the spelling words, or might work even more slowly and therefore fall farther behind from that inconvenience.

I agree with the PP who asked if she can move her desk when there is the need for facing forward.  Or if she could ask to move temporarily to the side of the classroom (away from her desk) while the lecture is going on so she can see better?  It would help her out and even if the teacher says no, it will push the teacher to re-think seating kids in this way).[/quote]

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