Heartbroken about DS's teacher

@nightmaries it's Saturday 🤣

One can only hope that this is a bog standard Sunday afternoon wind up Fred

"I am DBS checked anyway due to my line of work.

However, happy to help set up an afternoon club! I have a few ideas."

Omg don't do this 🤣. Poor Mr T, forced to go to your club, you're sending out stalker vibes.

"Don't worry Mr T, I'm fully DBS checked". He'll be running for the hills

Please don't go in and complain about this - we had a parent forum meeting this week where new classes were discussed, the head took the opportunity to confirm that teachers don't mix classes for their own fun or without thought. It takes endless levels of criteria and factors to take into account and at the end of the day, parents have to trust their judgement.

The headache teachers get over classes is just yet more crap they don't get paid to deal with

This is a truly bizarre thread. Your jealousy of the other kids shines through. Why should one of the ones placed with this teacher miss out for your child? New teachers are part and parcel of schooling.

So we say they agree and move your DS. Then then need to swap him with someone. So If you think your DS is being punished. Does that mean said child doing the swap is being punished and that's fine with you?

Give your head a wobble. It's good for them to experience different scenarios, different Authority figures, different people. How else will they cope in the real world.

Don't be a helicopter parent! One of my DS had 3 different teachers this year due to maternity leave, temporary contracts and illness. He didn't like one of them but so what, he got on with it.

What will he do if he doesn't like someone in the work place. Or someone he likes moves.

Teach him some resilience.

I've had this in reverse. I taught one A level group and a colleague taught the other group. My colleague had a dreadful car crash and was out of school for almost 7 months then returned on a phased return with you get groups. Whilst my colleague was absent her group had a supply teacher. My A level group did very well at the end of Year exams and the other group did very badly. It became apparent they had huge gaps in knowledge. Their teacher returned for the beginning of the following year. My group that was all up to date was given to the teacher who had been injured and I had to teach her group that were all behind. Out of 16 students in my former group 11 parents complained they didn't want my colleague who had been injured so badly. It felt fairer for me to teach the group that was behind through no fault of their own because it would have been a lot of pressure on my colleague coming back from such big injuries and having her students lagging behind. Both groups did well in their final exams.

I'm pleased that yours are being home-schooled and I would imagine that all your local 'sub-standard' teachers and schools agree!

Auto-correct. I typed resilience.

Does your ds feel strongly about this? Or is it more you observing from the outside?
I have felt like this about one of my ds teachers. His next teacher was unkind and actively disliked boys. In the end I moved him to another school after being told by the head teacher that he knew the problems with Ms xxx but could not get rid of her. I moved my son to a lovely school and he is very happy. I taught him that he was more important to me than any institution and that there are solutions to life’s problems. I would not have done this just because he really liked a particular teacher. We all need to build resistance to life’s disappointments.

So did I that's why I clicked on it to see what had happened to him

Madness op
Sorry but this is crazy

Classes usually have one year with each teacher

OP, just think about this rationally.

What % of pupils are moving from Mr T? Is DS the only one? No? Then what if all the parents reacted like you? Would you like DS to be in a class of 45 kids with Mr T? Because if you let the parents choose the teacher, this is what will happen!
Then no doubt you will be moaning that DS is being punished by being in such a large class!
Moving classes is how schools work. You already know this.

Nobody is 'punishing' your child OP.
This scenario is completely normal for schools and you will just have to deal with it.

Almost as if they were pre-empting the OP complaining…

Dear Parents of Mumsnet

You know when you have an issue you want to discuss with the school but worry about being That Parent and so don't?

Just remember this thread. This is what That Parent looks like. Not a reasonable adult who has a reasonable concern about their child.

TBH I don't think it's healthy for you to get involved in class allocation.
When children get to secondary school they have numerous different teachers a a day and spend lessons with other children who may not be in there close friendship groups.
I think it's good for children to get used to do different teachers especially for the last few years of primary school so they are ready for secondary.

If Mr T is the best teacher then other DC now deserve a turn in his class. You DS has had his turn.

I agree - thought teacher had died!

Weird comment from head about the other teacher’s success.

This ^ I thought you were going to say your son’s teacher had died!

Sorry, you're being utterly ridiculous. How on Earth is he being punished? This is normal. What do you want to happen? That he stays with the same teacher all the way through school. That is not going to happen. My son has SEN. He has had some fantastic teachers that he has forged a bond with. However, he's then gone on to form the same with the next teacher. It's how the world works. I wouldn't have dreamt of making an issue of it with the school. Your son will be absolutely fine and he will also still be able to chat with Mr T.

As the mother of a soon to be year 4 kid, my fob is truly smacked.

If I may say so myself my son is very bright, lots of awards and prizes and has never had a repeat teacher.

At the end of the year we thank his teacher and enjoy the summer and a new year starts. His year 2 teacher was utterly fabulous and he sometimes goes back to see her after school and show her his latest certificate or story and she is always over the moon and spends a lot of time with him and his other friends.

I cannot understand this sort of attitude OP.