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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let it go, OP.  This is life.  Your child is at a public school, so you're not paying for any special treatment, which barring some endangerment to your child (or very specific learning issues which should have been documented on the parent referral form at the end of last year )is what you're asking for.  One of my sons got a teacher everyone griped about one year and did perfectly fine with her.  It helped that I'd taught him to make his own decisions about people and he tried to go in with an open mind.

To all the posters who say push for a change, I am so happy I'm not your child.  You are teaching them the wrong lessons.  In school, as in life, you need to learn to get along and make do sometimes.  It's never too early to start.  Particulary, here in the NOVA bubble.  I've got a child in college now and see some of the kids who had mommy and daddy smoothing the road for them and never having faith that they could handle things on their own.   It's not pretty.

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[b]Parents with standard-issue kids are very happy to spout platitudes about how character-building it can be for other children to be given a full opportunity to fail.  Please take your smug bitchiness elsewhere.  [/quote][/b]

No one said anything about standard issue kids.  Mine have had issues of all sorts  and had less than perfect teachers and teachers who didn't get or even disliked them.  But somehow they survived without me big-footing it in there to make things the way I thought would be ideal.

btw, if you would reread my message you would see that I made a specific exception for parents who feel their children are endangered, or whose kids have special learning issues.

but overall I really think in most cases parents do their kids a disservice by immediately pushing for a teacher change. very often, the kid, or the teacher may surprise you and as the principal who responded  here noted there may be other reasons your child was put in a specific class.  In the end, of course, people are free to do what they want.[/quote]

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