Heartbroken about DS's teacher

Dear lord OP you need to calm down a bit and as you dont seem to have a need for your ds to stay in that class over personal preference move on. Class allocation is a school decision its not something you can control. My ds is going into yr3 in a yr3/4 class - half his class is the year above him, half the class are kids are y3 like him but weren't in his class this year AND he has a new teacher it's not something I've concerned myself with as the school are best placed to make class decisions as there's so many variables im unaware of.

What if Mr T leaves are you going to follow him to a new school, going through school is about change.

I'm not sure who the child is here because you are behaving like one saying it's not fair.

No one is being punished so stop that line.

Not at all. Different teachers bring different strengths as is natural in life. Your son will benefit from having a teacher with different skills while a similar child might not.

My son had the same teacher in R, Yr 1,Yr3 and Yr4. She adored him and played favourites. His Yr 3 teacher picked up on gaps around his handwriting. She had a very keen eye on correct letter formation. This was brushed off along with our concerns by his teacher in Yr 3/4 as she could read his writing (too familiar with it I suspect) and was more focussed on his “brilliant” content.

Into Yr 5/6 with a different teacher and us and his teachers had a hell of a time trying to get his work legible enough to get SATS scores.

I suspect op's real issue is that, by remixing, there will be some children who will be in the class two years running and her ds is not one of them. Whether this was a conscious decision or by random. Equally there may be some who have not had Mr T either year.

This crossed my mind too.

Your being “that” parent

I'm sure Mr T pities the fool

This is the kind of entitled attitude teachers have to deal with all the time. Schools determine classes based on a range of factors including balance of abilities, sen, behavioral needs boys and girls balance, friendship groups. They may take into account if a student/teacher or parent/teacher has been particularly difficult. But they absolutely cannot take into account the preferred teacher of any child as they would then need to take into account the preferred teacher of every child.

😂my child had a Mr T in primary. I bumped into her the other day and when I told DC he said ‘who was she then? Which year did I have her?’’

It is nothing in the bigger picture of things.

Keep pushing it, they’ll give in and let your son switch classes. As well as you getting what you want, it’s also a great way for you to make a lasting impact on the school, because all the teachers will remember your name in years to come when people ask them why they left the profession.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but this really is the kind of parental attitude / behaviour that drives teachers to their limits and which makes the already stressful job unbearable.

Of course it’s disappointing for your son, and of course it’s a source of worry for you as a parent that he will have to adjust to a new teacher, but it’s you’re responsibility as a parent to be positive and encourage your son, and send him off into the next school year with a positive mindset. Not allow him to be influenced by your heartbreak.

As others have said, resilience is important for children to learn. And, in the nicest possible way, having to have a decent, qualified teacher in a small, safe school where he is already thriving, is really a very very minor ‘inconvenience’ to have to adapt to. Millions of children worldwide would jump at the chance to have a fraction of that kind of privilege and security.

Have your son make Mr T a nice card, and then go onwards and upwards into the next year.

I thought it was going to be something terrible like they’d died. Manage your expectations is my advice. When it comes to secondary you wouldn’t know any of the teachers at all.

"Heartbroken"

Oh my word, you have a long and emotionally exhausting 10 years ahead

Blimey that's a bit dramatic. He's not being punished for anything .
He's moving up a year.
You are being massively unreasonable

We one had a parent who was ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED when Mr S left the school and didn't get the opportunity to teach her darling child, so much so that she moved her child from the school to the one Mr S had moved to. Unfortunately, it was 2 form entry and her child was put in the opposite class😂

I think change is hard and the anticipation is often worse than the reality.

My children always got a new teacher every single year starting in reception through year 6. The classmates remained the same in reception-year 2 and after that even the classmates all got mixed into different forms. Starting in year 4, they had different teachers for English and Maths rather than main teacher. In year 5 they only had their main teacher for whatever subject that particular tutor taught along with morning registration. It's good practice for the children to learn how to deal with change and different teaching styles etc. It's only gets harder in secondary school and beyond.

Maybe look at it as you're lucky your child had a fantastic year with Mr T and it will have given him whatever advantage you think Mr T has given. Your next teacher will no doubt have their own strengths and you might be pleasantly surprised.

Your exceptionalist and narcissistic attitude is the biggest disadvantage your DS will have to overcome, if he is to develop into a balanced and caring person.

What if Mr T is the teacher who inspired by a new group of pupils and is ready for the dynamics of a new class.

You are being ridiculous!

Just to give a different perspective, the only parents who ever ask for me again are the ones who have unruly children and who know I keep them in line 😁

So you think he would definitely be in Mr TS class if he acted like a brat in school? Now that doesn't actually make sense does it?
There are lots of things that go into making up a class list, maybe one of them is Mr T wanting fresh faces to work with or children that are struggling that he feels he in particular can support, maybe other children deserve the chance to have a Mr T in their life and benefit from that experience

Your son will cope absolutely fine with something that is going to happen to the vast majority of primary school children. He isn’t being punished for being good he was moved into a class

having a new teacher will better help with resilience at moving forward and eventually going to high school where frankly at the moment teachers are leaving and getting a new one is par for the course

This.

Y1 teacher couldn’t spell? Couldn’t spell what? Was she dyslexic? Did she make a game of spelling things wrong to show children it’s ok to make mistakes?

Male teacher I worked with was loved by the kids, wanted him the year after, only he had no discipline in the class room, never took kids to the HT, played all the games with boys int he playground and ignored the girls - that class moved up and the amount of parents called that year for their behavior was shocking - parents were all ‘but the behaved for Mr T!!! No they didn’t, you just didn’t know about it.

Or maybe it's not the child Mr T wants to see the back of ...

OP, this is a you problem. Seriously.
Maybe consider why you are so invested, because honestly this is not a big deal. You know in your heart it’s not going to make a jot of difference long term. Listen to what people are saying here because you are taking this far too much to heart.