Son is having issues in his Algebra class, which is an advanced course for his grade. The teacher gives 5 points each day for completeness of homework, yet doesn't check accuracy of the homework. He counts test scores as 100 points, and only gives them 15 problems to solve, and there is one test per chapter. He says that his tests show him if the students are having issues understanding the work.

My son is having issues with quadratic functions, which I and his older sister are working with him on. He was having problems with polynomials, and flunked a test. After sitting down with the boy child, I found out that he was doing them wrong because he wasn't taught the basic rule for solving them. After showing him what he wasn't taught, I spoke with the principal about having a re-test...which was granted. The teacher decided to average the two grades, an A and an F to give him the grade for the test...mainly as a show that HE's in control of teaching, not me.

Ok...fine. Today, I log on to check his grades, as I have every school day, only to see that there were no entries online since the 11th of last month. Prior to the Christmas break, I attributed the missing grades to the teacher taking some vacation time prior to the break. Anyway, I checked today and saw nothing added, so I sent the teacher an email about it, asked why nothing was entered. His email back was quite contrite. He pissed me off.

Now I have another appointment with the principal, guidance counselor, the teacher AND a representative member of the school board tomorrow morning. This teacher, according to the guidance counselor, is as dry as sand, and treats the students in the same manner. I know for a fact that he doesn't review the homework given, and only grades on completion...it's all in the syllabus that was given to the parents in the first week of the school year.

From what I've been told, this teacher has been there longer than the school administration team, and that there isn't much they've been able to do about his style of 'teaching'. My goal is to get my son a teacher that will do their job...TEACH. Statistically speaking, only 60% of this teacher's students pass with a C or higher...the rest either pass with a D or fail the course. These are students that passed the required test to qualify for the advanced course, these are bright kids I'm talking about, not your average math class student that barely scrapes by.

I'm open for suggestions on this...How would you handle this?

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