I'd have a chat with her, if that didn't help, I'd have a chat with the coordinator and her together.
Her job is to teach your child. What on earth was he doing for 90 minutes?? Was he starting but not completing a bunch of stuff? Was he reading a book under the desk (I may have done that once or a bajillion times ...)? Was he sitting there doing nothing? Was he chattering to other students (I may also have been prone to that...)? Was he drawing or doing creative writing or something? Was he eating spaghetti bolognaise and playing Starcraft?
And what the fork was the teacher doing, while he "completed nothing" and was oh so "Very disappointing."???
And what on earth does she think you're supposed to do about it, hours and hours later, that you aren't doing in any event? He's seven. He needs leading and teaching and encouragement and stimulating options and boundaries and freedom and macaroni. That's her job to negotiate these waters. Not pottering around leaving passive aggressive notes to parents in communication books.
If he's being disruptive and needs parental intervention, she should say so. If he didn't want to do a particular type of work and she couldn't find a way of getting him onboard, she should say so. If he keeps on reading his book or doing something else instead of doing the work he's supposed to be doing, she should (wait for it) say so. Or send him to the principal, or whatever gets done these days.
Nufty.
There was one teacher at my primary school who was just rubbish, and she'd leave out these work sheets which were boring and stupid and taught nothing - so I got the blind girl in my class to teach me how to write and read brail, and I wrote stories, and made up surveys I would get people do participate in, and I wrote a play. She kind of hated me anyway, and I wasn't interested in colouring in koalas and filling out answers to the work sheets she'd put out while she ran in and out having cigarettes and drinking endless cups of coffee. There's reasons why bright and resourceful kids might not "complete anything" as far as unhelpful teachers are concerned.
Or maybe he's been swinging from the chandeliers, running amok and coordinating the slow but inevitable demise of the school's axolotl. But if it's something towards that second category (or frankly, in any event) she's not helping anything by her approach.
So I'd politely but firmly organise a sit down, to get onto it. If someone was finding my child difficult to teach, I'd want to know why and how it could be addressed ASAP, and if it was irreconcilable then I'd want my child in another teacher's class.
A teacher who's not a douche.
And who knows - maybe there is something very simple and solvable, which you can sort out with her with a bit of ventilation and discussion and education (oh the irony) and Imran and her and you will all be heaps better
I'm not saying you'll be best friends and end up sharing handbags and thermomix recipes, but it might end up being good.
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