Teacher probs

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My son 10 is in p6 in Scotland. He can’t stand his teacher. He’s a quiet boy, causes no trouble. He struggles with his work, but being in a large class 34, I feel he gets swallowed up. Iv emailed the teacher explaining that he thinks his teacher dislikes him as she shouts at him. But we have sorted it out and things seem fine now. We feel she has a lot of little favourites in the class. Around 5 girls, who can do no wrong. Now these girls and parents are asking for this teacher to be their teacher in p7. Surely it doesn't work like this? My son is worrying now, he doesn't want her in his last year in primary. He’s really unhappy at school just now. This isn’t how teachers get allocated to classes is it?

I think it depends on the school. There are a few parents at my DCs school and when they say ‘jump’ the school bc asks ‘how high’. We had a dreadful teacher last year. I asked for her not to teach either of my children this year. It’s a private school, there is space on the other class. She is teaching one of my children this year. It’s not going well, I’ve asked again if my child can go into the other class which has space. Still no. One of the afore mentioned parents asked for their child to move....obviously that was fine.

Thanks for your reply. I might need to email the head if it comes to it. He’s been in the same class since p2 with the same pupils. But if it comes to it, I’ll be asking for a class change. I think there are 3 p7 classes. Smaller than other years.

If the school are listening to the preference of these girls' parents would they not also listen to your preference when you ask to have a different teacher next year? It seems usual for the teacher to change each year (and probably a good thing since not every teacher is a good match for every child) so unless there was a compelling reason for the teacher to teach them again I would hope this wouldn't happen.