Changing teacher after Christmas - reception - would you have a word?

[CocktailQueen]

My ds has just started reception and is still having problems settling in - tears many days, esp when going in in the mornings, though is generally happy and joins in, enjoys it when he's got used to being there!

When he started I had a meeting with his teacher who said that she would teach his class mornings, another teacher woudl do afternoons (other teacher going on maternity leave at xmas) and morning teacher would stay to teach mornings all year to give the class continuity. NOw we have been told that a totally new to the school teacher will start in January to teach ds's class all day but that current teacher will still 'pop in' to see them.

Would I be totally unreasonable to speak to current teacher to find out why she has decided this, after promising to stay? She is deputy HT of the school as well so would have thought she would be involved in the decisions process. Am cross about it - and worried about how ds will cope with the change after xmas.

Argh. WWYD?

I would do nothing. Your ds will get new ft teacher and will adapt. I certainly wouldn't make a fuss about it. What would you propose they do?

She 'promised to stay"? Seriously? She said "Mrs CocktailQueen, I promise to stay and teach your son"

Hopenglory, thanks, v helpful post . She reassured/told/informed me?? Whatever.

She probably was involved in the decision making process and the decision has been made that she will no longer be in your ds's class. You can't insist upon it and its not going to be useful to you to be given a reason why that decision was made. My ds had an awful time settling into reception and also had a change of teacher early on and it was the best thing that could have happened. I liked his old teacher who was very experienced but the new one was much better. He will still be in the same classroom in the same school with the same TA and the same children.

What do you hope to achieve by asking her? She had a plan. The plan has changed. There were no doubt many factors involved, of which your child's situation was only one.

Talking to her won't change the decision. It won't make you believe that it was the right decision, or made for the right reasons. If it does anything, it will just be to make her feel bad that she ever made the mistake of "promising" something that she later couldn't deliver.

Will that make you happy?

so you "go in and have words" and then what? It is unlikely that this teacher will give you the reasons why this decision has been made, and tbh she's not obliged to.

Teachers move around in schools all the time, I'd imagine that if this teacher isn't teaching in that class there are good reasons for her doing so which won't involve your particular ds. But that's just school life, and your ds will be fine.

OK, thanks.