Can you request what teacher your child gets?
I am hoping for a certain teacher for my 1st grader next year. I am a PTO volunteer and have done alot of volunteering this year. So I feel like I should have a little bit of a say so. Is that wrong for me to think that?
Our school does not permit any parent to request a teacher, no matter who they are. I am a past PTA Treasurer and current PTA President and wouldn't dream of making such a demand based on who I am and what I do for the school.
Now if the school permits requests, then I would go through the proper channels as the school has laid out.
And in my opinion, doesn't matter how much you volunteer, it has no basis on who your child gets.
Our school will not honor requests. They don't even send out the school letters until a week before school.
Yes, they even send out request forms before the end of the school year. Then the teachers the children currently have meet, go over the request forms together and place kids accordingly. If the parent has a request that the teacher doesn't agree with then they discuss it with the parents. Since the children have the same family group for 2 years it's important that everyone agrees it's the best place for the child. We also have a very small school, only 30 kids per grade in 3 different family groups.
We can't. What I think we can do is say, "Hey, we had a bit of a conflict w/ this teacher w/ another child. Can our other child please not be placed in his/her class?"
No..our school does NOT do requests for teachers. Due to Tabitha having had a child that frustrates her to no end in EACH of her homeromm classes since Kindergarten, Tabitha's file has been noted so that she doesn't have to put up with this kid for her last two years at this school. (This kid kicks my daughter's chair, steals her pencils and breaks them, damages other kids things, etc. Tabitha is fed up. Having the kid ont he other side of the room has not stopped it.) Hopefully since the principal is the one who had Tabitha's file noted...Tabitha will not have to put up with her anymore.
I don't think we can. I also don't think it would be fair for you to have preferential treatment over other parents just because you do a lot of volunteering. Other parents may not be able to volunteer because they have to work, so why should they not also be able to choose their child's teacher?
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- saysmom
on Jun. 10, 2012 at 9:51 PM