To have a small glass of wine at 1.20am because I've just finished my classes annual reports!!!

[montymum]

DH is in bed so all alone down here, but so pleased to have finished them all. I feel I deserve a treat!!

I was doing reports on other MNers for fun on another thread a couple of weeks back. Give me a short, honest paragraph and I could produce you a diplomatically worded school report

Silly though, isn't it?
My own reports from school certainly didn't pull any punches about the teachers' opinions of me and my talents.
Now reports are sometimes so full of positive spin, it'soften hard to pick out the real weaknesses that need addressing.

thats true, GC, everything has to have a positive spin...

I suppose I'm aware that I'll be seeing the parents at parents evening and every sentence will potentially have to be explained and justified. I don't want to be dealing with furious parents through being too honest....

Unreasonable! Should have been a large glass!

As for if they change radically in the next few weeks (seeing as they go out well before the end of term chaos/excavation of the crap in trays/kids going off on hols early fest) - at least if they're done and saved on PC (in about 97 different back up locations in my case), they're quicker to alter than create from scratch.

My mum gave me shit about my school report once (included the usual euphemisms for talks too much and concentration of a flea)... in retaliation (I must have been about 13) I found her old school report book and referenced hers - which included EXACTLY the same things! (and at least two of the same teachers)

I believe I was a "lively contributer to class discussions" - suffix that with "even when we really haven't asked for her own opinion she'll give it anyway" and you've about got the gist.

I always dread seeing the word "lively" in relation to my son. It is such an obvious euphemism for pain in the fucking neck, that I would like to see a more creative one.

Three DDs. Reports were issued here this week. I have;

a "delightful little girl" (read: complete nightmare)
a "lovely girl" (read: I am so warm and fuzzy I couldn't say anything else)
and a '"quiet, sensible little girl" (read: I've never heard her speak, but she hasn't killed anyone in class, so I think she's OK)

I wish their teachers had had a BEFORE they wrote the reports, it might have been more entertaining.

Thankfully, I haven't yet had "can be challenging in X situation". My friend got that about her son and thought it was a GOOD thing. I did not have the heart to disillusion her.

Blimey, they really say that, janitor ?

Obviously thoses statements would go against the report writing policy at ds's school, hence they've never appeared in any of his reports...

ooh dear CRS, I would save "challenging" for "is on the cusp of being expelled"

I haven't started my reports yet. I think they are due at the end of next week. It doesn't usually take too long once I get started, and I have already topped and tailed them.

I could't start start drinking in the middle of the night - if I were writing reports at home, I would have drank the wine at the time!

I haven't done mine yet. I wish I could be a bit more honest at times, but it's not the way things are done any more.

Goblinchild I shall use a couple of those.