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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ask to be switched. Every schools know who the problematic teachers are and what they teach. No school is going to pro-actively move your kid so ask to have the kid moved and give examples of why.[/quote]

This is one of the many reasons teachers burn out.

[b]When schools honor these switches, the good teachers end up with huge classes and the “bad” teachers have minuscule rosters.[/b]

So the good teachers are taking home twice the papers to grade. They have twice the students to manage and twice the parent emails to answer.

So the good teachers burn out at a fast pace, often feeling tons of resentment because they are doing twice the work for the same pay. [/quote]

And when they don’t honor these switches, a kid gets behind in math. The schools role is to educate students. Teachers could organize and advocate for the removal of low performing teachers if it’s adversely impacting their workplace, but for some reason I don’t see that effort…?[/quote]

A) how would you even know if they did that or not? It’s a personnel issue. Of course you don’t “see” it

B) it wouldn’t work. Teachers have contracts. I cannot advocate for my colleague to be fired. If they have done something egregious like improperly touching or communicating with a child I can report that and admin can follow up and the school board can investigate and fire. Even THAT takes forever. [b]We don’t like dead weight anymore than you do[/b] but we have no power to tell the school board to violate someone’s contract and fire them because they aren’t as good at teaching as others. [/quote]

The suggestions that teachers do a little self-advocacy comes from this claim that they suffer from bad teachers too. If thats false than cool, enjoy carrying your colleagues dead weight and stop telling parents not to advocate for their kids [/quote]

Relax. Nobody is telling you that you shouldn’t advocate for your kids.

Of course we pull the weight of bad teachers, but it isn’t our responsibility to fix that problem. There are people in the school who are directly, specifically tasked with that job.

You seem mad that teachers aren’t doing more for you than they already are. I’m not sure why? If you want poor teachers removed, I recommend you turn your ire to your school’s admin team. They get paid the bigger bucks to deal with these issues. Don’t encourage teachers to create an environment where they are turning on each other. How does THAT benefit your child? [/quote]

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