to ask you to help me complain?

[Cathycomehome]

My ds1 received his school report (year8) just before Christmas. It has his name, a child called John's name, a child called Jacob's name and a subject report written by a teacher who's never taught him in it, among other mistakes.

His drama report was particularly bad, mentioning poor manners; I really laid into him about that; when I phoned the school to discuss it,it transpired that report was not meant for him. So I told him off for someone else's report.

I have a meeting Friday to discuss this, but I've already had an apology, so what am I asking for? This is an outstanding academy school...

But seriously what are you asking for? Just the proper report for your DS? What else do you want?

You've had the apology - why are you having a meeting? What do you hope to achieve?

Mistakes happen in busy offices. Mail merge and "comment banks" unfortunately aren't infallable.

Have you had the real report? Is ther anything in that you need to discuss?

I think that's it. The right report. I'm pretty astounded by how cocked up the original was though!

You're being serious about not wanting such sloppy report writing to happen again for ANY student in the school and asking for anything on your DS's computerised profile that isn't correct to be altered forthwidth.

For it not to happen again. Appalling!

Them to review their procedures? What happened to Head of Department and/or tutor checking reports?

Ps, I am myself a teacher. And have yet to have fucked up a report to this extent. It makes me want to question his nc levels which look a bit too good for a child in set 5 of 10 to be honest.

Can they promise it won't happen again? Sounds like human error.

The proper report for sure, and a guarantee that his teacher/head teacher will proof read the report before its sent out to you in future. I thought all schools did this anyway, but obviously not in this case.

It could be a breach of confidentiality/data protection. I would also want to be assured that his correct scores are in his personal academic file.

Thanks, I think I don't need to dwell on the cock ups, just to make sure my son gets a proper report.

I teach primary, if any secondary teachers can help: level 6b for maths and English when in set 5 when he scored 4 a at year 6? Really?

I'd want to know what they are going to do about finding out why it happened and putting steps in place to make sure it never happens again. If there were this many mistakes in your sons report, how many other reports had mistakes in? It is an invasion of privacy issue. If you got someone else's drama report, did your son's drama report go elsewhere? Are there some children who have suffered unfair punishments due to bad reports that weren't actually theirs.

I would suggest that the school should check all reports and inform any parent whose child's report was in any way incorrect.

i think some people are being silly with all the "what do you actually want to happen?" type comments. Its really bad of them....very,very lax and displays a worrying lack of organisation.

I would want to know how it happened....what the system is and why it went wrong...and then to be told how it would be assured of not going wrong again.

Haven't yet had replacement report.

Disgraceful of the school to have allowed this to happen, very sloppy indeed. You need to make sure that some other child hasn't been given your child's report by mistake also. And, I would want to know if this has happened before, ie: have your child's grades been correctly recorded and what measures have been put in place to prevent this happening again. Mistakes like this can have consequences on your child's academic achievements I guess, even in year 8.

6b sounds reasonable for a Y8 who was 4a in Y6 (I'm secondary). I would work roughly on a 4a being a 5a in Y7 and a 6a by the end of Y8.....but as a teacher you KNOW it's a load of old cobblers anyway, don't you? We make these figures up based on rough guesses and old data. There's nothing that bloody scientific about it.

I'd be kicking up hell with the school, however, about how shit the report was and asking how you will be confident in the future that remarks about your son will actually be applying to HIM and not some other pupil.

6 sounds reasonable.

Kids getting 5s in year 6 should expect 7 at year 9.
So 4s should expect 6. 3s should expect 5.

Teachers are under a lot of time pressure to do reports on top of everything else they have to do, but this is not acceptable.

I'd want an explanation as to how it happened, and an assurance that procedures will be reviewed and corrected.

I'm no longer teaching secondary but if this had happened when I was a guidance teacher (Scottish system) I would hope I'd have been disciplined.

I'd want to know why it happened and all their (detailed) operational procedures for it not happening again. And a verbal apolog (again).