WIBU to ask for dd's school report to be amended and re printed

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With her name instead of that of a random other child in the headteachers comments?

if they've sent you someone else's report then they have actually broken the law so you are in no way unreasonable to ask for a report that is for your child.

My daughters report came last week and in one section there was a different girls name, I just sent a note in asking for a new copy of the report with the correct name because it was obvious from the statement in that area that it was a copy and paste thing but I wanted the right name on it. Had the name error been in the more sensitive areas of the report I would have been less reasonable about it because children's educational information is private and confidential and schools need to get that right.

I sat through an entire parents evening once before realising that the teacher was talking about the wrong child!
YANBU to expect that your DC's name is on their report

I don't really understand why you felt the need to ask here. Of course that is BU

Oh and a word to the wise Headteachers.....if you are going to use the exact same wording for your remarks for every child, please remember that those of us with more than one child will spot your laziness!

I was a school governor at our local primary when both the Head and the Deputy were off long term. The secretary asked me if I would proof read the reports for them. Like an idiot I agreed. It took me 2hrs for each class, and because they were cut and paste jobs I was constantly finding children who had changed names and/or sex, and they were so BORING.

There is no excuse for using the wrong name or gender words, even if every child's report is copied and pasted from the original. All they need to do is use find and replace.

Why not red pen grammar errors and return to school with a request for a reprint? Unacceptable and unprofessional in my book.

My friend has twins in the same class. A boy and a girl, their reports were exactly the same word for word. Until it said well done Josh, that's not his name

This really grips my shit.

Either school reports are worth something and therefore worth the effort in writing them correctly, including proof-reading and original text, or they're not and schools should stop doing them. This half-way house is shit.

But yes OP you should send it back red-penned. And hopefully that will embarrass them into sorting it out.

Last year, apparently ds enjouedngling know a trip that he had not been on. I pointed it out on the comments sheet and it wasn't even acknowledged.

One time my DD's teacher clearly cut and paste comments from the report of a girl in the year above that she had prepared the previous year. So assue DD is called Maya and girl in year above is called Hope, the teacher not only managed to change the name Hope to Maya throughout, but also managed to change hopefully to mayafully and I hope that to I maya that.

Oh lordy.
Must try harder. (can I blame the phone, please miss, can I?)

Ten changing hopefully to mayafully really made me giggle. At least they know how to do find and replace, eh?

We have had this on most reports for our two DCs (now in their teens), but the worst culprits have been DD's special school and DS's private prep school... both of which had less than 10 to a class.

DS's high school (1800 students) nails it every time! Parent's evening there is an absolute joy too, as they know him so well!

I have just gone through DD's report with a red pen. I was appalled to find my DAUGHTER had been addressed as he or 'his' on 25 occassions. This is so sloppy I am sickened. I understand that teachers copy and paste. I was writing reports myself only 2 years ago but this is ridiculuous. i am going to pen a letter in complaint and will follow up on parents' evening. I am really beginning to question whether any of her report is factual.

I was a bit disappointed with DD's report, school didn't seem to know her very well at all. She was praised for stuff she can't really do and her strengths were ignored. Until I looked at the top of the report and saw another child's name They had put the reports in the wrong envelope. k

Wow, I am surprised at people referring to this mistake as being 'appalling'! I absolutely agree that yo us hold ask them to check and change, but at the end of the day, it is probably just a mistake.

Our reports are checked by us, then by our heads of dept, then by heads of year, and then by an independent proof reader. Mistakes sometimes still get through, often where names are unusual, or where names are not spelt in the traditional way.

FWIW, I NEVER copy and paste, every report is written on its own, but the same phrases are likely to come up again and again, as you get into 'report writing mode' after the first fifty or so.

Oh, and please bear in mind how long it takes teachers to write reports. 6 Sundays a year in my case

A part of my job I read references on UCAS forms, and the same errors occur regularly, wrong name, wrong gender etc. And batches from the same school/college being virtually identical with just the names changed.

DD2 had a report from school one year that gushed about her prowess at sport and how often she had represented the school in team games. She is the least sporty person you could meet, and hated games with a passion. We still wonder if the sporty person had the comments DD2 should have had, and what they made of them!

Not unreasonable. Fucking shocking mistake.

It depends, in a primary I think that is pretty shoddy where you only have one class. However I have a friend who teaches children once a fortnight in secondary. That means when it is report time she has to write 850 reports. If that was me the secretary would be lucky if the reports came back not covered in blood let alone all correct.