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[quote=Anonymous]I believe you and the many other parents who have similar reactions to this teacher.  You should follow your parental instincts.  Playing favorites and picking on one child is bullying behavior -- she's manipulating the children emotionally.

I would begin writing down the incidents.  You can talk to your child about what happens in school --- even if it is not about your child.  First, they witnessed it and are impacted by the bad behavior AND you are an even more believable advocate when you include incidents that happen to other students.

You can meet with her and take notes on what she says.

Kids can't always articulate what is wrong -- so I would ask "did anything with the teacher that made you feel 'I don't think this is right...' or funny?"  It might just make your child feel bad and they don't know why (they are 5 and they shouldn't know why it's wrong!).

Finally, only the principal knows what all the parents are saying.  And, perhaps, your PTA president.  The problem is that parents don't always work across grades or they will say "it's not my problem anymore..".  If your principal isn't helpful -- we had a principal that just lied about a teacher like this and told parents each year "I've never gotten any complaints" when she had a file on the teacher -- then you can conduct a survey.  I used the criteria for teacher evaluations from the county and asked parents who ever had the teacher to fill it out and included examples of bad behavior.  I then had about 15-20 different examples in writing (anonymously) to take to the principal and, when ignored, to the MCPS administration.

My child never had a problem with our bad teacher, but I heard of many problems and she was a bully.  There are many parents who can't or won't speak up for students -- for many reasons including being afraid of retaliation by the teacher or principal -- so it is incumbent on those of us who can speak up to do so.   
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