Report Card Comments

[PhillipV]

My wife & I were discussing this a little while ago...

Do you remember your elementary school report card comments from your teachers? Do those comments still hold true today?

When I was a little kid, my report cards would always have the following written on them: "Phillip would do much better if he would learn to be a little more quiet." I'm now 43, and I have an opinion about everything!! I guess my 3rd grade teacher (Mrs. Charlton) was right.

What about you?

(p.s. - My wife still day dreams)

 

[cccm]

Yes I loved those handwritten notes by the teacher. Now everything is just computer generated.

Mine was that my handwriting was awful. It still is!

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

I used to get "overly sociable"...I remember it so well. Those were the only pseudo-negative ones I got; I was a good student.

And BTW, my kids' elementary school doesn't have computer-generated comments. The teachers write very personalized notes on there!

 

[SillyMe]

I can handle the report card comments, but I'll tell ya what ticks me off. My dd7's teacher wrote "poor job" on her test the other day. She's been struggling this year for a few reasons. #1 she's one of the youngest in the class and isn't really comprehending things like the other kids are. #2 she's having alot of problems with her father. #3 the teacher has no patience and isn't a very nice one (actually, I can't stand her and neither can the kids). I just didn't see any reason for the comment. My dd is already too hard on herself, then to see a comment like that from the teacher made it even worse. I was TICKED!

 

[Blondy876]

Yup, I remember one from my 5th grade teacher. "Jennifer is a very sweet girl but not very bright, you should not expect her to go to college." Ahhhhh Mrs. Stratton. My 5th grade year was a horrible year. My mother had abandoned me and for most of the year I didn't know where she was. Then of course, there was the divorce that followed her return and a change in my living situation. The teacher was well aware of all of that too. The funny thing is when I look at that report card (my grandmother has saved all of my report cards) I did not get any grade lower than a B in any subject.

Well, now after graduating from college with a 3.5 GPA and completing my grad classes for certification with a 4.0 I am a teacher. Hopefully a better and more loving one than Mrs. Stratton.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Yup, I remember one from my 5th grade teacher. "Jennifer is a very sweet girl but not very bright, you should not expect her to go to college." Ahhhhh Mrs. Stratton. My 5th grade year was a horrible year. My mother had abandoned me and for most of the year I didn't know where she was. Then of course, there was the divorce that followed her return and a change in my living situation. The teacher was well aware of all of that too. The funny thing is when I look at that report card (my grandmother has saved all of my report cards) I did not get any grade lower than a B in any subject.

Well, now after graduating from college with a 3.5 GPA and completing my grad classes for certification with a 4.0 I am a teacher. Hopefully a better and more loving one than Mrs. Stratton.

What?! I can't believe a teacher would say that!

Way to show her! I believe I'd have to mail her a copy of my diploma.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I forgot to answer about me. My teachers always wrote that I talked too much and I day dreamed too much. Yep, still true.

 

[annegal]

My 4th grade teacher, a chubbo who wore pink& purple outfits daily, gave me a "D" in art-all we did is color copies of coloring book drawings.


I went on to recieve a College degree in Fine Arts

 

[Stacerita]

What was written on my report cards still holds true today. In fact, I bring this up after every work evaluation and review I get. My boss will write the same thing, almost word for word, as my elementry school teachers used to write about me. "Stacie is a joy to have in class/at work. I wish I had 30 others like her. And she works well with others." Yeah, I rock the comments section.

 

[HERSEY]

Teachers need to learn that their comments can strengthen or hurt a child.

I remember a friend was told by her daughters teacher she would never count past 10. She is a special needs child. Well she counted 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20. She heard that comment and would not count the number 10.

 

[SillyMe]

Yup, I remember one from my 5th grade teacher. "Jennifer is a very sweet girl but not very bright, you should not expect her to go to college." Ahhhhh Mrs. Stratton. My 5th grade year was a horrible year. My mother had abandoned me and for most of the year I didn't know where she was. Then of course, there was the divorce that followed her return and a change in my living situation. The teacher was well aware of all of that too. The funny thing is when I look at that report card (my grandmother has saved all of my report cards) I did not get any grade lower than a B in any subject.

Well, now after graduating from college with a 3.5 GPA and completing my grad classes for certification with a 4.0 I am a teacher. Hopefully a better and more loving one than Mrs. Stratton.

Way to show her! The same teacher I just commented about regarding dd7 in my previous post, told me years ago when dd15 had her for 2nd grade that she would not make it thru 3rd grade unless I put her on Ritalin. Now, dd did NOT have ADD. She just had problems with reading comprehension. Well, she went on to get A's and B's all thru 3rd grade and that teacher loved her!

 

[Poohnatic]

While I don't remember the exact comments, I remember my mom coming back from teacher conferences for most of my elementary years.

I was the kid everyone liked to pick on, but I was usually the teacher's favorite. This was because I always had my nose in a book. They all (save one) commented on how inquisitive I was and two of them really took me under their wing. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Kearns, I loved you! My sixth grade teacher was full of nothing but comments about how I didn't participate with the other kids-and my mom recounted six years of classmates behaving poorly.

Fortunately, she changed her tune. My sister had the same teacher four years later and she doted on Kathi the WHOLE year! My nephew had her 20 years later and once she found out who his grandma was, he got the royal treatment, lol.

I clearly remember our central high school district's junior and senior high school comments. There were numbers teachers could choose from 1 to 19 to fit into the little box (eight classes worth of grades on one card). My mom told me early on that while 1 (work is outstanding) was good, 4 (puts forth genuine effort) meant far more in her opinion. As a result, I'd get my report card and cross my fingers that I got mostly 4's!

Suzanne

 

[grinningghost]

The computer generated comments stink. They often don't EXACTLY fit the situation, but the teacher just picks what's CLOSEST to what they want to say - that causes alot of stress among the students and results in a lot of phone calls from parents asking for clarification.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

This is really funny! We just got DS6's report card last week, and it said DS6 "is a pleasure to have in class." That is the identical comment I got throughout school. Sometimes I wanted to be bad just so I'd get a different comment!

Though as a mother, I do appreciate the nice comment.