Heartbroken about DS's teacher

Children aren’t at a disadvantage when they get a new teacher op 😂 it happens most Septembers for most primary school children. Your ds will survive. You might not get over it though, you seem really obsessed with Mr T

by the way it’s the teachers who decide the classes. They think about the best mix of pupils, and the needs of the children socially and academically

Mr T and his colleagues have decided your child would be best placed with the other teacher.

Me too.

I assumed, from the title, the teacher had died. He hasn't. You are being ridiculous!

How? When you’ve said yourself “the new teacher has made the best progress in her year group across the whole school”.

You have got to be joking. Right?

Unless your kid is baby Jesus.

What was the reason for mixing the classes up? IE were they really that imbalanced?
What is the reason for your son not being in Mr T's class? How have decisions been made?
If he's had a really poor teacher in the early years, not made much progress and made great strides with Mr T (which maybe lost with a different teacher) then there is a sound educational reason for him to stay with that teacher. Also the male teacher may have made a real difference too.
Particularly important to keep boys engaged educationally as they can switch off and misbehave so easily. (In a different way from girls before I get flack).
It may well be that your son is doing well so the thoughts are that he will do well with the other teacher!

Just like 99% of all children everywhere.

If he's year 4 isn't it time to put year 1 behind you or to have changed schools?

This 100%. The sooner he learns to adapt and deal with things, the better.

Schools tend not to accommodate requests to change teacher because it would open the floodgates and everyone would be asking all the time. Heartbroken is probably a bit extreme, I thought you were going to say a teacher had died.

If Mr T has done a good job your child will be ready to move on and won't need him as a crutch....sooner or later he has to break away year 4 is old enough.

So did I! I very much hope that OP has not been talking about any of this with her son. I will always remember standing in the playground with other parents waiting for the children to come out. We'd just been told which classes our children would be in the following year. I saw a little girl I knew, aged about 7 or 8, and asked her which class she was going to be in. 'I'm supposed to be in Mrs X's class', she said 'but Mummy says she's not a good enough teacher for me, so I'm moving to another school'. And so she did. They were an odd family. I often wonder how they turned out (all in their 30s now).

You'd hope so but I have doubts.

This thread is a wind up, right? 😬

Punished?

If the classes are being mixed then it's surely inevitable that your DC is one of the approx 50% of kids who were on Mr T's class for Y3 and won't be for Y4. So hardly being singled out.

I think it's good for kids to have different teachers, some they will like, some will "get them", some they won't or will have less of a connection with. In secondary they will have that multiple times a day with different subject teachers.

If the other class teacher has a good record of developing kids learning well then there really isn't any need for you to not want them to teach your DC. Mr T will still be in the school and likely still involved in the year group if they do things as a whole so your DC will still see him.

What a ridiculous comment. He's just not in that class. Tough shit. No kid can choose their teacher. They'll have teachers they love and teachers they're not so keen on. That's life.

I would enquire into whether the teacher runs any clubs or might need a helper at break time once a week to keep up their lovely relationship.

Also, please please let the teacher know how much your child adores him and what a positive impact he has had, and try to avoid making him feel guilty about the changes. Great teachers like that need celebrating x

Unfortunately at our school the headteacher was misogynistic so DH asked the next time and the request was considered.
Some (head)teachers have a thing against mothers

Wonder if Mr T has asked not to have your DS because he and his mum are a bit too demanding and it would be in your DS' best interests to develop his resilience.

Fwiw, this year my child has had an amazing NQT who has the most enthusiasm, care and fresh ideas. She has been nothing short of brilliant. As was the very experienced teacher last year, and as will next year's teacher be, I'm sure. You and your son will survive and might even thrive, who knows - new teacher could be even better than Mr T.

My DS had an amazing teacher in yr 3, then at Easter it was announced she was leaving the school. Everyone was so upset.

But they got a replacement for a term and they turned out to be my son's second favourite ever. He said he was sad that the first one left but was glad as he wouldn't have had the other.

Changing teachers is life and exciting - maybe the new one is just as good. In our school they have other teachers in the year teaching all classes so he has one teacher for science then reading with his teacher then PE with another. Your ds will still see mr T, he may do an after school club he can attend.

Um. What?

I was going to suggest that Mr T might have made a special request!

Grow up OP.🙄

Mr T sounds like an amazing teacher. Let him know what an impact he has had on your son but try and embrace this new teacher.

It’s just part of school life, moving teachers.

Genuinely, I hope you're not actually serious. This is some high-level MN preciousness.