Teachers swopping classes

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My dd’s yr3 teacher has been swopped for this term (only at the moment) for the year 2 teacher with no real explanation. I’m more concerned about the swopping of teachers (the yr 3/4 teachers never seem to last very long) and I don’t really want a succession of teachers whilst she’s in this class. Do you think it’s unusual? The head isn’t being very communicative at all

Do parents really think they have that much of a right to know the business of the school and the teachers.
As long as your children have a teacher that's surely all you can ask for.
It sounds like they are doing what they can at OP's school to manage whatever situation they have.
I can remember years ago the same happening in one of my ds classes and the rumour was the teacher couldn't cope with the class.
I'm sure this wasn't the case, it's usually the first thing rumoured in the playground by parents though.

I have heard of this on two occasions and neither were for 'sinister' reasons or poor teaching.

Once was because a new child with severe learning difficulties joined a class in the middle of the year and as the class had several SEN children already, they felt the SENCO would be a better match for this class.

The other reason was because there was a child with on going child protection concerns and it was decided a few weeks into term that their old class teacher should be teaching them as she knew the history of that child and the child would be more likely to make disclosures as they had a good teacher-pupil relationship.

In neither case were the parents told because it involved confidential information about children. If there was something you needed to know, you would be told about it.

i'm another one who has seen this and the reason was family relationships. a child in the class was related to a family member.
in another instance teacher 1 had successfully taught a class of tricky characters. teacher 2 was not able to manage the group in a way that they felt comfortable with and teacher 1 volunteered to teach the group again. all the teachers involved were excellent teachers with years of experience. I actually think it's great that the professionals are all working together.

Do parents really think they have that much of a right to know the business of the school and the teachers
Some do. You see it lots on here with parents saying they've complained and school have 'done nothing' and then sometimes thry list thr things the school has done too (which is often more than nothing). What they then admit they really want is to know if the teacher has been given training, put on competency, been bollocked etc.

I had a totally arsey parent complain about me once (totally unreasonable by thr way and ridiculous) School gave me thr heads up and said don't worry we've told the parent that we'll have a word with you. I went mad. The complaint was stupid and school knew it was stupid. They had ZERO intention of speaking to me because ot was a ludicrous complaint but in order to appease said demanding parent they said they'd have a word (rven though no word was needed). I was furious and pointed out now that parent wanders around feeling smug that they've not really got thr teacher into trouble so you've just rewarded stupid rude behaviour.

Be glad your child isn't in the disruptive class.

I wouldn't expect to hear the reason and would trust the head teachers managent. What would you hope to hear?

'Mrs A is struggling with yr 3/4 because she doesn't handle disruptive children as well as Mrs B from yr 2. It is pushing her to the point of being off with stress so to help her we are switching them round.'

Parents do not need that level of detail, it isn't fair on teachers. I understand your concern but one switch is very reasonable.

So which teacher are you concerned is the dud? The original teacher or the replacement moved in from year 2? From the posts I gather you have already had the year 2 teacher last year, they were experienced and you were happy with them? And schools don't usually move teachers that aren't coping into a SATs year group, so that teacher is OK. So I would assume neither is something to worry about.

Both are good teachers, neither appear to be ‘duds’ . I guess my underlying concern is the school
Is too small to carry anyone not performing or being distracted or whatever - it happened a few years ago and one year group had several teachers . It ended up several parents moving their kids away. I Hausa want consistency of teaching, I’m not bothered who

I don't think the size of the school is an issue. Any school that has to replace a teacher could be faced with multiple supply teachers.

If behaviour is an issue and she is in an NQT then they shouldn’t have her in there (so have a duty to move her in theory at least, doesn’t usually happen, so good on the school!). It could also be due to stress or could actually be the opposite and she is an expert year two SATS teacher and the other was feeling out of her depth.
Whatever the reason it will be in your chikdrens’ best interests, so accept it is with good intentions.

In the nicest possible way having the attitude that one of the teachers is a dud isn’t helpful. If they were really awful they probably wouldn’t be making changes to support them, they would be pushing them out by making life difficult. You don’t have a right to no the reasons.

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