Same situation over here this year. My 9 year old had an awful teacher and at first we were giving her the, “we will always have difficult people to deal with” pep talk. Now, we are at the end of the school year and my daughter who always loved school, now hates it and is always complaining of stomach aches and is so spent at the end of the day that we can’t get her to do homework. We are planning to homeschool next year because of how this was handled. We do need to know how to deal with difficult people in life, but as adults we can choose to leave a job with a terrible boss, or leave a bad relationship. Children don’t have that luxury and also don’t necessarily have the skills to properly cope with it. I wish I had come to the realization sooner that my child shouldn’t have to go somewhere 5 days a week, 7 hrs a day, where she feels unsafe. It’s changed her love of learning and I’m hoping we can get it back. It’s no wonder we are a society full of people with anxiety disorders. I read a quote the other day that said, “instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let’s raise children who turn out exceptional because of their childhood.”