There are multitude of instances of professional misconduct that can take decades if not years for a school and district to deal with. I’ve had a misogynist teacher who bluntly said girls aren’t strong enough in math to do engineering and spent the entire year discouraging any girl from thinking about a STEM field. I had not one but 2 teachers eventually fired from my school for inappropriate relationships with students. There was the Spanish teacher a few years from retirement who sat at the front and didn’t teach anything and if students got a bit too loud in their wasting time threw books at them (granted that was a popular class as everyone got an A). And I was in the most advanced classes my school offered! There was a reason over half dropped out of school without graduating.
Even in my kids’ extremely strong middle class district we’ve seen exactly how long it can take for a teacher to be removed - even after years of complaints. I’m not subjecting my kids to abusive and incompetent teachers. I see no reason to teach them to accept unacceptable behavior - that serves no one in the future.
My D18 did (regular) physics in sophomore year of high school. The previous physics teacher had left at the last minute so they had a biology teacher who told the kids at the start of the year she was 2-3 classes ahead of them in learning the material. We complained to the principal but were told no one else was available. So very little learning happened, but there were plenty of As in the class, since the teacher already knew the parents were on the warpath.
Did the OP suggest the teacher was abusive or anything like that? Not that I saw. The complaint is that OP has “confirmed” that the teacher has no interest in teaching. That’s quite a leap to abuse, misogyny, and professional misconduct.
Actually the OP hasn’t returned to clarify. In my initial response, I specifically stated if it was not great teacher take the class - if there was more to it look at alternatives. The thread had multiple people discussing incidences where they would choose not to have their student take the class. Your post that the teacher is employed therefore fine is also quite a leap. My experience is that abusive and incompetent teachers can stay in the classroom indefinitely. The OP has chosen to not clarify or expand on the nature of their concerns.
I suggest creating a new thread to discuss teachers who have inappropriate relationships with students, teachers throwing books at students, and districts taking years to resolve such complaints. This isn’t that thread. Feel free to message me if you would like to continue.
Our son had a similar problem but opted to take AP Physics anyway. His teacher wasn’t disinterested in teaching but he was brand new to teaching physics and admitted he was out of his depth. So we got a local physics tutor to supplement our son’s in-class learning and our son also regularly sat in on another higher level AP physics course taught by a more experienced teacher in the school whenever he had a free class period.