It actually isn't the job of a teacher of 2 year olds to answer questions. I think the placement is the fault, not the teacher here. She has a reasonable expectation that the kids in her room will act like normal 2 year olds.
I'm going to veer off-topic here (my apologies to the OP), but . . . really? Is my child just in a very unusual preschool? Admittedly it's a room of 2.5 - 3 yr olds, but each day is FULL of questions, answers, explorations of how the world works, asking the kids questions to get them thinking ("What is ice? Why does ice melt into water? Which do you think is going to melt faster, the big block of ice, or the little ice cubes?")
My town is lucky to have an awesome Early Childhood Education program at the community college, so preschools here are flooded with well-trained, enthusiastic teachers. But even if this sort of thing isn't "normal" for teachers of 2-year-olds, it seems like it should be. In other words, it IS their job, even if most of them aren't doing it.
