Pregnancy
Changing School or Teacher
Question: The first-grade teacher is going to fail my daughter. Would it be better for my daughter to stay at this school with a different teacher, or would it be better to send her to a new school where she can start over in a new first grade?
Answer: Think about what would work out best for your daughter. If it's possible to send her to a new school, that would probably be easiest on her. That way she would not have to see the children with whom she was in first grade this year and realize that they are in second grade and she is not.
On the other hand, if your daughter is a child who is shy and for whom change is difficult, you may want to leave her in the same school but with a different teacher. The difficulties of building her confidence in a new situation may be more traumatic than staying in her old school.
Talk with the school counselor. He'll know your daughter and the situation, and will be able to suggest what might work better for her.
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Barbara Potts has worked as an elementary school counselor for many years. She has a BA in psychology from Wake Forest University, and an M.Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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