DD is 9 in P5 (in Scotland so that is a class of 9 and 10 yr olds) They have a newly qualified teacher this year, she seems fine, but she can be quite sarcastic with the children which they don't always get, apart from that, I have no issues with her or anything.
So, all year DD has had pretty much the same homework every single night, putting 5 words in a sentence, she hates doing it, gets bored and moans every single night.
At the end of Feb they are told that instead of their usual homework, they are being given a month to do their own individual project, which is to be done in the evenings instead of usual homework. It was to be started on 1st March and handed in on 29th, so giving them 4 weeks to do it. Each child in the class was given a country to research and a list of things to include, like festivals, famous people, capital city etc.
DD got really into it and loved doing it, spent time on the internet, went to the library, learned some words, cut out pictures from a travel brochures, spent ages doing it.
3 weeks in, they had to take it in for the teacher to do a progress check. So by this point DD had done 20 pages, the other kids had done 5 or 6. Teacher praised some other children's work and said to DD "You have done a bit much, start to finish off now" DD said she still had a couple of things she wanted to add in, the teacher said she would rather she didn't, but was up to her. DD came out of school saying her project must be rubbish as the teacher gave a positive comment to everyone else (her friend confirmed this) so from that night DD didn't do anything else and totally lost enthusiasm.
They had to take their projects in again on friday, for another inspection, before handing it on on Monday (yesterday) for a final check. DD had done nothing at all since the last check. Again, the teacher commented to some children that she was looking forward to reading theirs etc, to dd she commented, she didn't know where she would find the time to read it. (but not in a nice way)
So over the weekend DD only added a summary page at the end at that was it. Handed it in yesterday and got a "Here comes DD and her novel"
Now I don't know if I am being PFB or whatever, but I feel the teacher was a bit nasty, DD was so into the project and was really enjoying doing it and was quite proud of it, and the teacher just totally put her off. Surely it is not the job of a teacher to knock the work of a child.
Now, if she couldn't be arsed reading them, why not say, to do 10 pages or whatever on a certain country, rather than giving a month.
So, it's still annoying me, as it only happened yesterday, I want to bring it up tonight (to be honest if it wasn't parents night I wouldn't really make an issue out of it) just not sure how to word it withou sounding like I am wanting her to praise DD, which I don't, I just don't want her to be put off learning.