What does one do about bad teachers?

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DS is in year 8. There is a subject that he likes a lot and is very good at, but the teacher he has had last year and this has absolutely terrible classroom control. He has continued to do well in the subject because we can support him a lot at home but he says he really, really does not want to have this teacher next year and into his GCSE years.

Is it possible to talk to the school and make this sort of request? My instinct is to support teachers and to feel sorry for those who have poor classroom control, but DS had started to hate these lessons and I don't want him to lose interest in the subject.

Charis1, interestingly, this blog post written yesterday shows evidence that the teacher training course at the University of Warwick is still promoting VAK learning styles: teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/nobody-believes-in-learning-styles-any-more-do-they/

There are some good points made.

The are totally out of date then, this was disproved and chucked out a couple of years ago..... Although of course it is still "embedded" in many areas, despite the fact it never ever had any scientific basis in the first place, and has been disproved since.... That is exactly what I mean about educational theories. Meaningless shite cooked up by so called social scientists who have no idea what science actually is, but they are good at packaging and selling crap, that gets thrust down the throats of innocent victims all over the country, and is frequently such utter gibberish that future generations are going to look back at how education was run in these times and call us the "dark ages".

And the OP thinks the shit hole that is British secondary education is somehow under the influence of the teacher stuck in the middle of it , being lambasted from all sides, from the children for not being able to provide a sensible education, and from ofsted for not being able to blindly deliver their bullshit with enough conviction and jollyness, from the managers for not being able to keep both opposing interests simultaniously happy, and from the parents because they expect her to somehow be performing a miracle in the middle of all this.