Originally Posted by celit
He always seems to have a couple of teachers each year that our DS suspects do not like him. Just tonight he told me he was talking to himself while writing an essay in English and his teacher walked by and told him, "you can stop writing your essay now because you have a zero on it already for talking." Later in class, my DS raised his hand to answer a question and his teacher told him, "put your hand down, Mr. Zero!"

The teacher sounds unprofessional to me, since she is not giving grades based on the quality of the work. In an ideal world I would complain to the principal, but in the real world with tenured teachers who can retaliate, it's a tougher call.