School Reports - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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This thread was prompted by a comment by @seul .
I was sent a couple of school reports my brother found recently. I was perhaps not an ideal pupil…..
The best one that I ever had, and God I wish I'd kept it (but many were intercepted before my parents could see them and destroyed) merely said:
"Giles who?"
I'm not sure I turned up to that particular lesson very often…..
Come on, let's see yours......
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I know I have some somewhere, will check.
I recall the phrase "class clown" used a lot, along with repeated reference to my indifferent attitude to things which didn't interest me.
Your report comes as no surprise G
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Think my dad might have some school reports… Me, I'm just glad I'm done with school... I was most known for my absenteeism... It's how I finished my first (and only) year of university: by not going... I did pass all my midterm exams, but couldn't be bothered after that... Glad I'm a working man
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With an average class size of 20 - 25, I wonder how many comments are truely genuine and reflect the progress in class or subject.
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My senior year of high school one of my teachers went nearly three months before she realized she had no idea who I was. She had only seen my face twice at the start of the semester but had continued to receive my work thanks to a girl in the class. The woman really didn't care, and truthfully we thought she was stoned all the time. Only way I was outed was a fight I got caught up in that was some place I wasn't supposed to be. Pretty much a summary of my academic career
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good idea …I just found some reports cleaning out the basement .(I'II post when I get time )..I did really bad lol ...well high school was a smoke show lol ...
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but I'm pretty sure I've got some shit from my year of military service. If that counts haha..
i've got plenty of shit too, not the mention the amount of charges i've got. but usually they do put in a good word as it sort of helps your subsequent job..
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Things were so different back in the day… At my school, if you ditched a few times the whole school would be on your ass and you'd be suspended, then expelled
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I went to a boarding school, and in my final year we all had to submit UCCA forms to apply for university. The house master wrote our references, which were confidential. However, one night a couple of my peers sneaked into his study and looked through the paperwork of what he'd written.
I was later told that mine read something along the lines of:
Graeme isn't very bright, but he works hard and gets good results.
Bearing in mind that I was putting an application into Oxford, this isn't actually what you want to have written about you. Then again, he'd already been very keen to put me off going there (apparently I wasn't articulate enough to fit in), and also off a legal career (my father was angry for a long time about the personal attack that he launched on me at a parents' evening about my plans).
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Better late than never. My personal statement aged 13.
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Nice to see that your musical tastes have evolved since you wrote that.
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There are more gems in that report, including the bit where I claim that I found it hard to revise for an exam because I can't retain facts which don't interest me
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Not everybody was/is/or will be a great student! I was once at an event at my school and Kevin Plank, CEO and founder of Under Armour, said that the straight A students experience the extreme later in life. A child that has received A's all the way up to college cannot handle failure in the real world. They have never experienced and it take them a very long time to recover.
How do you guys feel about this? Do you think your success is solely based on passion, hard work, something else? Post whatever comes to mind. I just want to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
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That's ridiculous. First, it falsely assumes that the student with As gets the grades without effort. Second, it falsely assumes that A students never face failure or setbacks in any other aspect of their lives. Third, that's correlation, not causation. He could just as easily have said that kids who don't get good grades early won't be successful because they didn't learn at an early age how to achieve. "Success" in life, which is an amorphous term at best, is not directly linked to success, or lack thereof, in school.
