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Post by MJB on Dec 19, 2023 20:07:21 GMT
My dad recently moved house and discovered my school reports. My wife is taking great delight in reading them. Brief synopsis is could achieve great results, but can't be arsed. I hated school with a passion and literally did enough to get by. My favourite comment was from my year 9 tutor who said "Martin has a happy, if somewhat casual, outlook on life".
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Post by zou on Dec 19, 2023 20:08:23 GMT
My dad recently moved house and discovered my school reports. My wife is taking great delight in reading them. Brief synopsis is could achieve great results, but can't be arsed. I hated school with a passion and literally did enough to get by. My favourite comment was from my year 9 tutor who said "Martin has a happy, if somewhat casual, outlook on life". Remarkably similar experience here. |
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Post by spinno on Dec 19, 2023 22:23:20 GMT
Nine of my school reports are believed to exist any more, but to summarise "a bit of a trier, but more effort would see him gain a good standard of exam success"
Effort hasn't always been in my vocabulary, particularly as I couldn't see any "rewards" at the time. Short term gain was my aim, but I'm more in it for the long run nowadays.
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Post by zou on Dec 19, 2023 22:25:40 GMT
Nine of my school reports are believed to exist any more, but to summarise "a bit of a trier, but more effort would see him gain a good standard of exam success" Effort hasn't always been in my vocabulary, particularly as I couldn't see any "rewards" at the time. Short term gain was my aim, but I'm more in it for the long run nowadays. 9? Did you have to redo some years at school? |
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Post by mike40 on Dec 19, 2023 22:30:13 GMT
My school reports were all handwritten by the relevant members of staff.........no computers or word processors in those far-off days.......which meant that every comment of "......could do better if he tried" had to be individually added. Subject teachers, Form Tutor and Headmaster - such dedication. A great shame that none took the same trouble to sit down and talk to me. Probably wouldn't have made much difference but might have showed there was some interest.
Take care,
Mike.
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Post by spinno on Dec 19, 2023 22:31:52 GMT
Nine of my school reports are believed to exist any more, but to summarise "a bit of a trier, but more effort would see him gain a good standard of exam success" Effort hasn't always been in my vocabulary, particularly as I couldn't see any "rewards" at the time. Short term gain was my aim, but I'm more in it for the long run nowadays. 9? Did you have to redo some years at school? I knew I should have done better at spilling. I only did seven years from 11, and strangely enough I started a year before everyone else at primary school. If the spellchecker on kindle fire is an example of AI then we are well and truly ducked |
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Post by geoffr on Dec 19, 2023 22:40:56 GMT
My teachers thought I should improve my written work, I did, eventually some 25 years after leaving school.
As with Martin I wasnât interested in most things at school, I didnât want a life where I had to write everything down to prove I had understood it, I wanted to âdoâ. That is exactly what I did for around five years then I got responsibilities and had to record and certify my work but, unlike schools, I understood the âwhyâ behind recording things.
I went to a grammar school where all the teachers thought we wanted to follow an academic pathway, they couldnât cope with those of us who didnât tick the way they expected. I pretty much hated French, I couldnât see the point, I would have liked to learn German (my maternal great grandfatherâs native language)but to do that you had to be good at things I didnât want to do.
Our education system is a mess simply because our politicians canât/wonât/donât want to understand that one size doesnât fit all.
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Post by lesleysm2 on Dec 20, 2023 2:43:05 GMT
A few years ago I found mine and on certain subjects I got really good results and others a lot of "Could try harder" etc. I was only really interested in a few subjects which was were I got the good marks but the others always were like something I had to do rather than wanted to
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 20, 2023 4:47:09 GMT
My wife is a teacher. When she was teaching full time, back in the 1970s, she had a useful list of synonyms to use when writing reports, to vary the sameness a bit.
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Post by Kath on Dec 20, 2023 7:39:02 GMT
9? Did you have to redo some years at school? I knew I should have done better at spilling. I only did seven years from 11, and strangely enough I started a year before everyone else at primary school. If the spellchecker on kindle fire is an example of AI then we are well and truly ducked But you spelled nine correctly. So there was nothing two correct. |
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Post by Kath on Dec 20, 2023 7:43:24 GMT
My school reports were a mixed bag. I often received comments such as 'A for achievement, D for effort' in subjects I enjoyed (English, French, Art, Physics and Chemistry), 'Talks too much' (History, Geography, Biology), 'Must try harder' (Maths), 'Will never make a cook if she can't learn to measure things' and 'Ignores patterns' (Home economics), and 'Slapdash approach to health and safety (Metalwork). For PE one year my report said 'In dance, Kathryn is very flexible but with little coordination'. Can't really argue with that.
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Post by kate on Dec 20, 2023 8:08:25 GMT
Haven't got and can't remember any. I was just a little genius until aged about 12. Ha!  |
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Post by mick on Dec 20, 2023 9:58:48 GMT
One school report comment has dogged me for the past 80 years (almost).
"If you gave him a ruler and pencil, he couldn't draw a straight line".
A second one (and I know that this is hard to believe). Was following mock 'A' levels and relates to applied maths. "he should be proud that he was first in the class but his score of 13% does not bode well for the upcomiong exam"
It's a long story but, briefly, we had been giving the teacher a hard time and the mock was his way of teaching us a lesson.
Mick
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Post by petrochemist on Dec 20, 2023 11:38:52 GMT
I never got to see my report at the end of the sixth form. I suspect the director of sixth form studies 'lost it' as he was very much against me adding Chemistry O level to my A level courses.
Fortunately the head of Chemistry was more understanding so I got to do it anyway - then passed both O & A levels in it in a year each which has directed me ever since.
I'd dropped Chemistry at the end of the third year due to consistently poor grades, but then came joint top in the year at the end of year exams (after O levels had been decided).
It seems my poor grades previously had been for terrible handwriting not a failure to understand...
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Post by gray1720 on Dec 20, 2023 12:58:51 GMT
Mine tended to be revolting good except for French, which I didn't see the point of (just wish I'd been as interested in language as I am now), and maths which I just didn't get.
I was highly amused a few years ago when mum unearthed all my old reports and I discovered I'd been counted as part of the First XI in the cricket term.
I was the scorer!
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