To teach beach and the other spouters re: requesting elementary teachers. Its a clique. The kids even realize it. That certain friends stay together and get the good teachers when their parents work for the school or are friendly enough with administrators. Some employees even tell their kids they can pick their teachers. Then everyone gets sad when their requests aren't honored and they assume they have a bad teacher or a bad class. Requests should only be made when having a certain teacher is a conflict. Not to make sure your kid stays with the "cool kids"