I hope she is now back at the Catholic school.
Nope. There were other reasons besides math why my daughter pulled her out.
The “Catholic” school really isn’t very catholic. Social snobbery is rampant, and my daughter didn’t like some of the influences on my granddaughter. “Mean girls” and “mean mothers” are allowed to call the shots on everything.
My daughter is a serious musician, and she teaches music from a serious standpoint. Many of the parents expect it to be an easy “A” for their kids who often refuse to put the required work into the classes. They try to use their wealth and their standing in the community to manipulate the system for better grades for their kids. Plagiarism is common. Skipped assignments are common. Parents demanding the teachers ignore those failures are also common, just as long as their kids get good enough grades to make it into the next private school.
Music is not just performance anymore. My daughter is expected to integrate music instruction into all the other programs, such as math, policital science, foreign studies, history, literature, etc. As such, the students must write the occasional paper at the 7th and 8th grade level. She’s learned that she must look up the topic on Wikipedia when a paper sounds too erudite. Often she will find 80% of it is copied directly. Parents don’t want to hear that and question why little Johnny got a D in music.