AIBU poor teaching is to blame for DD dropping two predicted grades during yr 9

[RainbowMaths]

Just had the end of year 9 report and DD has drooped two predicted grades since this time last year.
IN the past various parents have muttered about the teacher but I've ignored them and told DD to get her head down and push on.

But AIBU to think that dropping two grades is a school problem rather than a student problem. How do I support DD? Complain to the school? Find a tutor? How can we turn this around?

If your dd isn’t putting the work in outside of school start there. From year 9 onwards you need to revise at home unless you are a savant (which is rare) and that would explain why she’s underperforming. Even a tutor won’t help if she doesn’t put the effort in - I am a tutor in my spare time and many parents come to me hoping I am some magic bullet, but actually using tutors only helps when your child works hard. If they are lazy or disruptive in school they will be lazy and disruptive with the tutor.

I would also suggest checking her performance in other subjects yourself by testing her, to ensure these performances weren’t flukes. I know quite a few students whose parents think the problem was one subject (because the kids got lucky with the others) and then in year 10 their overall performance dropped too.

@squeakywheel

You “ended up teaching him to read after school”?
You do know you should’ve been doing this before he started school, right? Teachers are there to help develop knowledge but they can’t teach children to read if the child has no starter skills from home

I think you need to get off the poor kid's (and teacher's) back. Your Dd's s done well in everything else, she can't be good at everything!

@Zippyx

"Unless your DD can assess the quality of teaching and can say it's insufficient"

Unless the DD is herself qualified, she categorically CANNOT 'assess' or judge the quality of teaching!