The Bracknell Primary School Association said if the teacher was replaced by a permanent residency teacher next year as planned, his class group would get its eighth teacher in six years.

The association has written to Education Minister Nick McKim asking him to consider saving the teacher, who is a first year graduate yet to be given permanency.

Association chairwoman Angela Cresswell said that as much as the grade 4, 5 and 6 teacher was a huge asset, the instability for the school and students moving towards higher stages of learning was the main issue.

``For a school to be viable you need to have stability, you can't just chop and change and expect a high standard,'' she said.

``We were one of the schools put on the government's hit list for closure, so we faced that battle and now we need to deal with this too.

``Another important thing is this is the only male class teacher we've had for several years and the impact he has had on the school is fantastic, he is a great role model for the boys.''

Mrs Cresswell said the school had put time and money into training the teacher, familiarising him with a $9000 occupational therapy program and $7000 maths program.

``It's the overall impact it will have on the school and the impact on the teacher to come in and learn everything and then have to leave - and really, he's just starting to get an understanding of how our school runs and he spent a year getting to know the children,'' she said.

Opposition education spokesman Michael Ferguson said it was wrong that Mr McKim allowed teacher appointments to be ``bureaucracy driven without any apparent regard for the needs of individual schools''.

``Such actions run completely contrary to the policy of increased school autonomy, which Mr McKim has previously said he supports,'' Mr Ferguson said.

Mrs Cresswell said she wrote to Mr McKim last week and hoped for a reply before the association met on Tuesday, as the end of the school year was approaching.

Mr McKim said he would reply as soon as possible.