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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]To answer OP's question: I don't think you should rock the boat. By joining the school and paying the tuition, what you're buying is the school's approach, competence, commitment, and community. You're not buying the right to manage the classroom or the school. If it's a quality school, then the school has already determined the new teacher is effective. This is especially true in the situation you describe, where there are only two classrooms. If everyone gets to choose which they want, the school will lose the power to balance between the two.
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Your statement is only true to a point.  We joined a school and pay the tuition and but that doesn't mean that I have to blindly accept everything that the school does.  It is not a cult with the headmaster being the cult leader.  Hopefully, all parents will continue to think, observe and make determinations about what they think is best for their child and for the school community as a whole.  That doesn't mean a parent always gets what he/she wants, but to blindly follow the schools "approach, competence, commitment, and community" without independent thought, assessment and judgement is misguided.[/quote]

I'm not saying you have to jump off a bridge if the headmaster tells you.  Of course you're still an independent person.

But by the same token, surely you recognize that you don't get to micromanage how the school is run.  What you've bought is the right to send your child to that school, and that means the school will determine how day-to-day operations will occur, not you.  Most schools will encourage feedback and input from the parents, but ultimately, it's the school that makes the decisions.

It's sort of like buying some stock in Walmart.  You certainly retain the right to buy whatever you want in your personal life, and also to dispose of Walmart's stock if you're unhappy.  But your stock ownership doesn't suddenly give you the right to tell your local Walmart what to put on its shelves.[/quote]

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