Request- Not to Have a Teacher

REQUEST- NOT TO HAVE A TEACHER

We send out a notice in our school newsletters that states the following:

Parents may elect to request to NOT have a particular teacher for their child one time during their child's K-5th grade experience.

They must make this request by calling and setting up a meeting with the building principal to state the reasons they feel this match is not beneficial educationally for their child.

The requests must be done by the first week in May. (We usually set a date for the first Friday in May).

We also state that requests are not automatically granted. It depends on the classroom make up, etc.

My first year we had over 45 requests.

Then we put this policy into place and have really limited the requests. I would recommend not allowing any requests, but this was a compromise with parents.