to feel quite put out that DD has earned 64 commendation slips, yes 64!, and a HT commendation but still only merits a SILVER award from her school?

[Ormirian]

FGS! Are all the other pupils bloody child prodigies or something?

[Ormirian]

[ashamedandconfused]

whats this, bragging by stealth? LOL!

they must have pre-set levels at which it would be gold, but silver is great too!

[pointydog]

It's clear that the school has gone Commendation Crazy, orm.

[GypsyMoth]

maybe you need 100 for gold??

[Ormirian]

It is boasting by stealth indeed! Actually forget the stealth

But really.... how many do you have to get to be worthy of gold. I mean, really. Look.....she is the only one of my DC who gets such things. I am allowed to be a bit precious about it.

[LaWeasel]

I bet she needed 65.

It's the first taste of that bitterness when you do GCSEs/Alevels and miss out on the next grade by one mesely mark!

[cubscout]

Of course you are. Well done your dd!

[Deaddei]

How old is she?
I know in yr 7 ds had to get 100 merits for the top award (which he got by February) [smug mother face]

[Ormirian]

65? Tsk!

DH rang to tell me that she had 64 and that she had got a silver award. I said 'Silver? Why not gold?'. He said he hadn't thought about it like that

[Ormirian]

She's 12.

[cannydoit]

dont get me started, my daughter lovely well behaved etc gets silver but the little shit that throws chairs and swears gets gold. apparently when i ask the teacher about it its about relative behaviour. so basically she because she is good is held to a higher standard but he who is naughty most of the time but is good once in a while get a gold because he is good once in a while. oh yeah thats good discipline.

[Wordwork]

It's hyperinflation. Someone's been doling them out like sweeties.

[EduStudent]

I once got 25 merits for a single piece of work [smuggy smug]

[Ormirian]

Hyperinflation! Oh nooo.... does that mean she'll have to be carrying then around in a wheelbarrow soon?

[Ormirian]

We don't have any little shits in our school canny. Oh no. Or at least I refuse to beleive that we do.... la la la!

[MumblingRagDoll]

You sound like my parents....YOU think she deserves more...but she will see it as she didn't do well enough to please you.

[TheHumanCatapult]

cannydoit

Ds has noticed this with all his cynical 14 years .I told him do not get any ideas .He was erm mum I be more worried what you would say if i misbehaved than wwhat any gold award is worth

[Ormirian]

Will she mumbling? I hope not. I am going to tell her how brilliant she is.

[5Foot5]

At primary school DD once got something like 99% attendance (she only missed one half session in the whole school year.) However, on the report her mark for Attendance was "Good" rather than "Excellent"