DD is 8 and on Yr 4. She has really enjoyed school since reception and loved her teachers so far. She is academically bright but a bit scatty. This year for the first time she is less than keen on school, and she is clear it is not about the classwork.
The issue is that her teacher shouts. A lot, and loudly. The class is big and noisy, but no more so than any other and no more so than last year. However, the teacher just does not tolerate any noise and yells at the children many, many times a day. DD is not one of the noisy 'offenders' - but she takes the shouting personally and gets upset.
DD feels reluctant to put up her hand in class or query anything she does understand, and is feeling quite anxious, wondering when the next round of shouting will be. The teacher really, really yells, enough to stop quiet children in their tracks.
Yesterday, DD told me that in a change of tactic, the teacher didn't shout at them - she just wrote instructions on pieces of card and held them up, pushing them up close to children who weren't doing what she wanted. It sounded quite intimidating.
So, what to do? DD could do with toughening up, but I do think that this teacher doesn't have a great approach to class discipline. However, she has been at the school for years - is on the SMT - so obviously valued there. Parents whose children have had her before all agree she shouts, but I hate to see how my DD's confidence and happiness at school is being eroded 
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