I’m going to look into the logistics of whether the teacher is able to let a student opt out of speaking without some sort of accommodation plan, because I like this as a support from a therapeutic standpoint. I also love that she openly encourages the students who stand up for you! She sounds very supportive. One thing about the first statement in your comment, though, for the sake of clarity. While you are right that some stuttering is always normal, there are also some kids who qualify for a diagnosis of fluency disorder and need some type of support. The severity and degree of adverse impact on the individual are what makes the difference at any age, not the presence of speech disfluency in and of itself. So it’s a bit inaccurate to make a blanket statement that it’s definitively normal to stutter at that age, because it leaves room for people (namely, parents and teachers of kids who stutter that may read this sub) to assume that a child who would qualify for that diagnosis (either because of severity or negative impact) needs no help or support because it’s “normal at this age”.