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?

whats this, bragging by stealth? LOL!

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

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

maybe you need 100 for gold??

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.

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!

Of course you are. Well done your dd!

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]

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

She's 12.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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"