Philomena
I didn't!
I stalked that lanky four-eyed bastard like a Hellhound until I got a meeting.
He still wouldn't apologise or anything, but I did have the satisfaction of seeing his face drop on a daily basis until he gave in and let me speak
my piece and told him what a useless piece of piss he was (er - not my actual words, but the gist was there.).
I was asking DH if he could remember the reason, and he could.
DD had been through three years of school (reception and classes1 and 2) and was well behind her brother in reading compared to him at the same age - now I hasten to point out that I didn't expect her to be ploughing through Chaucer, but I did think that she should have been able to manage more than "Run, Spot, Run."
I'd done a bit of work at home with her myself and got a letter back from the teacher saying that she didn't want pressure on the kids and they'd come to it in their own time, yadyadayada -and that if one child was reading a lot at home it discouraged the others etc. This particular teacher (whom some said the head was shagging - I don't know if he was or not, be she seemed to get away with a lot) also stayed with the class moving up with them from reception to year two, which was unusual to say the least.
Anyway, come end of year two, we all got letters from her saying our children should be reading at a much higher level and effectively saying we should tell them to get their fingers out and put a bit of effort in at school as they were lazy little shysters etc.
I went off it! I went to see the teacher - she wouldn't meet me - always "too busy". Went to see the head - ditto. Other parents had had the same sh*t thrown at them. Head continued to blame children (separately) and refused to discuss it - then when we realised that we were all in the same boat and asked for a meeting wouldn't listen to a "mob". We wrote to the governers and board of education and raised no hell of a stink. I also made a personal point of waylaying him whenever I could to ask what action had been taken about the teacher and finally got a meeting, but was just told it was inappropriate to talk about it.
So I got DD a tutor to help her come up to scratch. In just a few weeks, she was at age-appropriate level. There were repercussions. I had recommended the tutor to others.
Head teacher summoned ME in for a meeting when I collected DD one day and told me that I had no right to do this, and that it made his school look as though they were failing the pupils and also that it wasn't fair on the other children who weren't getting tutored.
I'm afraid I went down his neck - told him his school WAS failing the pupils and that I was sorry if my getting a tutor for my child wasn't fair on other pupils but MINE was the one I had a responsibility to - unlike him, who had a responsibility to them all but was cocking it up.
I also told him that he could expect other pupils to be getting tutored, too as I had been passing this lady's name around.
He was furious! He caused a lot of trouble for her poor woman - she was a retired teacher from the school and he told her she was unprofessional etc and had her in tears (she rang me). The bastard!
However the year 3 teacher was very grateful because she couldn't start her syllabus until the kids could read at an appropriate level.
That H/T was an absolute GIT!