Can I share DDs report with you

[Hallucion]

Well an excerpt

“X has made adequate progress this year due to her lack of effort applying herself. She is capable of achieving so much more. I hope X uses her potential to make better progress next year”

She’s 6.

Not sure if I should laugh or cry 🤣

My best report card was aged 7 ... "if Beyond spent some of her time in the real world rather than daydreaming she might actually achieve something" that was 50 years ago... can't be the same teacher... can it...?

This teacher is very young so I doubt it.

Nothing about her KPIs? What sort of report is that?

Good god she’s 6 😂 I’d write this for my 15 year olds who just want to piss about, but this is super harsh for 6! In all seriousness though I think school should probably have drawn your attention to this a bit sooner.

Thats a report to keep 😂

The teacher next year may be more suited to her.

My sons references his need to share his ideas with the class, a nice way of saying he constantly shouts out random crap. His teacher also mentioned that he is a very spirited and determined little boy, so a little bugger who doesn’t give in.

DD1's reception school report focused mainly on the fact she refused to apologise to another child one day, how she lacked empathy and wasn't very nice.

She is autistic. We moved schools the next year where she thrived. Nobody has ever said anything like that about her since.

One of dds reports said that she believed she knew more than the teachers and should listen and focus more

Translation

She corrected the teacher more than once on historical accuracy and she was absolutely right

She moved schools her next school were more flexible if she corrected them they would enquire source littlecat? Or just admit they were mistaken and correct it zero fuss approach meant she didn't feel she HAD to challenge them and relaxed down

No measure of KPIs as they realise it’s been a difficult year and it’s unfair to measure against indicators!

So we just decided to tear her a new one instead

My 6yo got a harsh report too. I expected it, but it was still a bit sad. He has epilepsy and has been on so many medications, he struggles with change and confidence. She just pointed out his flaws.

WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC

6! She's a baby! I'd have to have some kind of communication with the teacher. I'm not an all guns blazing type of person, very far from it, but wow. Definitely bring it up.

That wasn’t even worth writing. If you run out of toilet paper…

Goodness, harsh for a 6 year old who has spent more time at home than school!

Ds had a similar report aged 9 - all positively glowing then one really terrible character assassination-I queried it (as was a little bugger at home but an angel at school) turns out the teacher got mixed up and wasn't for him at all

Her teacher is the one that need to make more of an effort.

We had all this nonsense last year with my DS when he was only 6. They even used the phrase 'immature'... ridiculous as he was just a baby who had missed a whole term of school and lost the opportunity of seeing all his friends and family.

I challenged them OP and whilst I'm pleased I did it was definitely a case of 'onwards and upwards' for DS. He's had a great year with a competent teacher, just as he had in previous years.

Fucking hell, her teacher sounds a delight. Bit of a personality clash, perhaps? I had a teacher in lower school who HATED me. Would be horrible about me to my Mum and Dad at parents' evening, same in reports etc.

The main complaint she ever gave?

I had a complete lack of care for any authority because I wouldn't rub out my mistakes and crossed them out instead.

Some teachers are just batshit. Keep the report, you'll howl at it in ten years time.

Your daughter sounds great, hopefully next year's teacher will appreciate her more!

Sounds as if a very inexperienced teacher wrote this.

My favourite report was from an art teacher, "Ancient couldn't draw a straight line with the aid of a ruler." Bit harsh I thought, I mean I wasn't good a drawing but with a ruler I could manage a straight line.

I had one horrible parents evening with a teacher who told me all that my son was failing at. I looked concerned and said, "So where do you think you've gone wrong?" She spluttered and I said, "He did so well last year so there must be a reason?" She then backtracked, told me I'd misunderstood. He was a marmite child, teachers loved him or hated him. I think you can guess which she was.

I do think it would be a good idea to find out what is behind it.

My 8 year old report was actually brilliant for once he has sen but his report was full of "was happy to try" better than the one that said "was hiding under the table at assessment time" or "prefers his dream world to reality" (dont we all)

Let’s hope she has a new teacher for September. I didn’t think they wrote reports like that anymore 😞

@Hallucion fair play to you for not taking it seriously & being upset. That's a rotten (and poorly expressed) statement to make about a little girl.

You definitely need to bring it up with the teacher.

Your DD and you sound great. Appalling teacher. 😞

Many years ago I sat in front of my sons reception teacher and heard a list of negatives. I looked her in the eye and asked if she had anything nice to say.. she was horrified and churned out a whole list. He wasn't even 5.

He's now HT is a large high performing secondary school.

Just laugh.

I had similar in my son’s first nursery. He was 2. Two!

“Do you have anything nice to say?”

She was mortified. We never went back.

🤣 wtf?
I’d take it to the head and confront the teacher. Teacher needs to learn a thing or two here!

Oh christ. Just ignore! I seriously wouldn't make a song and dance about it.

TBH I am surprised as generally you won't ever read a bad comment in a report - even absolute horrors receive amazing reports but it's really not worth getting your knickers in a twist. New teacher come September. Be a funny one for when she's older!

Most reports ask for parent feedback. I would be putting something to the tune of “. The teacher as NOT adequately provided an inspiring and engaging education to my child, thus denying them to reach their full potential”
What a cock of a teacher. Did the head teacher add any comments??