This year I requested my younger child not have Mrs.A for a teacher. My older child had Mrs. A, and in my honest opinion, Mrs. A does not belong in a classroom. Not only that, Mrs. A flat out refuses to answer questions, talk about the curriculum, or send class work home.
So the school honored my request, and my child has had a great teacher.
But now they have split some classes into ability groups...and guess what...now my kid is going to have Mrs. A for math(which essentially means I'll need to "homeschool" for math now) for the rest of the school year.
I don't think I will say anything, as younger child doesn't know the backstory, and it would be confusing for him. I am frustrated though, that after I had put in this request he would end up having to spend tim with the teacher anyway.
I would say something. It could just be that whomever divided up the children didn't know about the request, or that the original request was so long ago that it was forgotten. We explained to our (then) 6yo why we were placing him in a different school for the following year, a lot of which had to do with how the administration handled his behavior issues. It may be as simple as telling him "the school put you on the list for Mrs. A's groups instead of Mrs. B's groups by mistake", and if necessary "Mrs. A doesn't like to answer student questions or tell us what you are doing in class and we think that is important."
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