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Which teacher being assigned to what student is an HR decision - the principal might be involved but it is on the employer to assign staff and he's the 'manager' for this employee. If you feel that your child is not getting FAPE because of this teacher's lack of training, you do have a case for having a different teacher providing what on his IEP. I know in my district, there are some teachers who have been trained in autism. They are the ones who tend to have a caseload of mostly students with autism. Autism is a disability that is difficult to understand without extensive training specific to the disability. In your shoes, I would ask for your son to be transferred to another teacher. Now go back to the 1st thing I wrote and the part you wrote about when this teacher was hired. There is a teacher shortage and this is especially true with sp ed teachers. There might not be another teacher with autism training. The good autism teachers might already have a full caseload. The answer might be no. The other thing to ask for is teacher training in autism. I've seen where that can help. Not your role to suggest this, but I've seen where a new teacher gets assigned a mentor and that can help although she's not a new teacher - she did work in other districts. (I'm wondering if her skillset prevented her from getting tenure in other districts.) I'll also mention this because it's researched to work: Ross Greene and Collaborative & Proactive Solutions. It might be a way to get her up to speed on how to help your son. https://forums.adayinourshoes.com/forums/topic/221-ross-greene-–-collaborative-proactive-solutions/#comment-834