My wife is a teacher and today's parents blame all problems on the teacher -- never, never on the kid or the kid's manners.
If your kid is having a problem in school then blaming it on the teacher robs your kid of an important life lesson in coping skills. If your kid can't cope with -- unfair grading and unfair treatment in dicipline they won't get far in the working world.
And, of course, they never cast any blame on their complete failure in their role as the child's first teachers.
In dealing with my 7 year old son I agree with his teacher about everything unless a voice from heaven tells me otherwise.
I explain to him his job is to work to her satisfaction, however she defines it. This will require more character of him than having long conferences about whether or not she understands him.
If your kid can't cope with -- what they perceive to be unfair grading and unfair treatment in dicipline they won't get far in the working world. Just because a kid thinks something is 'unfair' doesn't mean that it necessarily is.