Right now, many families have children returning to school. It is a fairly stressful time in everyone’s lives.
Parents and kids … and teachers too!
For those returning to the same school as last year there can be the knowledge of which teacher will be assigned to what class.
The kids and their parents will be talking about ‘I hope I get Ms. S’ or ” Gee, I wouldn’t want my child to be in Mr J’s class” or “I wonder if my new teacher will be … nice, kind, bossy, give lots of homework”.
However, as a former K-6 principal I need to explain that the path to allocating kids to classes it is not always smooth, particularly in areas where population changes can affect school staffing numbers. Up or down.
So what to do about any problems with “my child’s teacher this year”?
In some schools, the principal may ask parents the… Read the rest