<p>We had a child in Chicago magnet schools system. We also ran into the change in administrators. One of our magnet schools had the kids protesting by handing in zero tests. My D. protested an inadequate English teacher by refusing to do any homework handouts that had a misspelled words and grammar errors. Teach gave her a C but yet she has a 35 on her ACT English. Thank god the kid self taught herself english! Now she is out of the mess and at a suburban school. </p>
<p>All I can say is befriend those teachers who can get to know your S the best. They will communicate the adverse conditions and what your S did to overcome the adverse conditions. I would think seeing it on the confidential T Rec would carry more weight. Besides, the teacher is in a better position to descibe the inside political chaos and how she/he saw it affecting the student body.</p>