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parent requests
By Julianne
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I have mixed feelings about parent requests. I worked for six years in a school that received plenty of parent requests and usually granted them. Most of these, however, were done as classes were being made up in the spring for next year. This at least gave teachers a chance to mitigate some of the unbalance caused by requests. As a parent I twice requested certain teachers for one of my children. He had ADD (no hyperactivity) and we felt we knew him and his learning style better than anyone, so when we knew he was facing a grade where a particular teacher would be beneficial to him we made a written request. These requests worked out for us and I don't think made a great deal of difference to the makeup of the grade level as a whole. But as an educator I know how you feel. If EVERYONE wants Mrs. Wonderful in second grade then the classes can get very skewed. One thing I have done when parents wanted their child out of my class (I wasn't Mrs. Wonderful...) was to try not to take the request to heart. Chances are that the child won't thrive in another classroom either and you will be vindicated. And if the child does do better down the hall then it was probably a good move.
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