My story is quite long and detailed to go into here. But the long and short of it is: Where do I stand if I think a friendship between a parent and a teacher and head teacher is impacting on my child. The parent has already attempted to abuse her position (also being the chair of the PTA) by involving my child in events (of which there was no evidence and resulted in my getting a written apology from the head teacher). I obviously spoke to both the teeacher and the headteacher about how they can truly be impartial but of course I got the 'teacher' hat in school and 'friend' hat out of school jargon. That may be very well but there is still such obvious impartiality being shown towards this child in the classroom. I now hear rumours that the class is going to be split up next year and I am worried that her influence will result in her child being put with her friends and my child not!!!! I know this sounds petty but there is a lot more history to this than I can go into on here but I know that if I go in and voice my concerns they will of course try to reassure me that there will be no influence from any parent etc. etc. But I'm afraid I have lost all faith in them. So my question is - what can I do to ensure this 'splitting' up of the class is done fairly - I suppose I can answer that myself and say - 'I can't - I'll just have to trust them'???????????????????????? But I don't trust them???????????????????????