Son scared of teacher

[Adizzy]

My son is in Year 6 and is in top set for Maths and enjoys school, never had any problems until now. He's refusing to go in to school because his Maths teacher is strict and shouts a lot at the children when they get a work wrong. Pulls them out the classroom and shouts at them in the corridor, shouts at the whole class at work on the board.

I've been into the school once before and they said they would talk to her and discuss any issues with my son and told him not to be scared. It seemed to be ok for a bit and he told me he just accepted her the way she is.

Now it's seems he's been trying to do this but it's making him more anxious and absolutely refused to go into school.

I phoned the school and they have been very slow at responding with whole situation I'm less than happy with how they have dealt with it telling me they would call me when spoke to my son, not having me there when speaking to him, lack of communication.

I spoke to attendance officer who said one of the teachers would get back to me about a meeting "in the near future "!

I was fuming I went in the and had to literally demand something was sorted out.
Spoke to yet another teacher who then said "oh it's part of life? and she's the best Maths teacher and she's strict"
I said "I'm sorry but I don't care how brilliant she is. She clearly isn't that great if she's scaring my son and stopping him from attending school and disrupting his education!"

She then said the only thing she can do is
move him into middle set. I agreed to this as I don't what else to do?

Now what can I do in regards to work? Obviously he will be going over stuff he's done already or he's more than capable of doing. What can I do to implement work he was doing in top set? How will this affect SATs and going to his secondary school?

[LemonFritz]

I think you’ve done the right thing. Your DS’s mental health comes first. You’ve demonstrated that you have listened to him and value his feelings. As far as I’m concerned that’s invaluable, far more important than his maths progress.

You could learn at home with him, perhaps try a tutor or just do nothing and see how it goes.

[user789653241]

It won't affect Sats, it's only testing what they needs to learn in primary, unlike old Sats which tested beyond primary levels up to lv6.