What was the worst school report you ever got?

[kennelmaid]

I was 10, in the last year at primary school. I knew my (male) teacher didn't like me very much. In the section about general attitude he wrote "kennelmaid is often sullen and can be a nuisance. She will find it very difficult to get on well in secondary school."

When the school accidentally sent my parents someone else’s report. Parents were livid at the report - until I pointed out that I didn’t have X teacher for maths. We’d been sent another girl’s report. There was an embarrassing meet up with the other girl and her parents to swap reports. I felt so sorry for knowing what would becoming when her parents saw it.
Otherwise it was just generally ‘talks too much’.

Year 9 was a bad year for me with a teacher who didn't like me.
Ruby is unable to organise herself properly and often comes to class late and without the required work.
Ruby is an A student in most subjects but fails to grasp maths at all. I m not convinced her poor work is not just laziness and wanting to mess around chatting with her friends.
P.E. I cannot comment on this girl as I have hardly seen her all year.
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"It is to be hoped Mere obtains the examination results she needs because she has failed in every other way to participate in school and benefit from what it offers". Yeah, well, 7 years of depression and social phobia does that for you.

OP, is there any reason why you put 'male" in brackets? is there a link between that and why he wrote you a negative report?

Molly believes she knows everything already and I feel quite sure her exam results will prove this is not case.
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I actually did ok. Totally crap history teacher who kept making basic errors in his teaching which I corrected. I was annoying though.

Swan will never die from overwork.

I got only 3% in a maths exam when I was fourteen. The head teacher wrote on my report : "Nobody (heavily underlined ) is so stupid that they can only get 3% in a mathematics exam. Clawdy would have had a really good report , if it were not for this ridiculous (heavily underlined ) mark." Wish I had kept the report now, my kids would love it!

Cath2907 might do better if she were to realise it is I who runs the class not her.

I might have also told a different infant school teacher she was unfit to teach and generally been a bit of a know it all.

In my defense I was right about the infant school teacher and had the Biology teacher who'd written that report actually taken control of his class I'd not have had to do it.... I now manage large teams and multi-million pound projects very successfully so there are some upsides to being a bossy know-it-all!

Oh and "Cath2907 may one day find the answer to life the universe and everything but it is doubtful she will actually tell anyone".

I really liked that one.

'A lost cause'. A horrible thing to say and sad because they didn't know about the life of absolute poverty our family led, 3 kids to a room, no space to work, freezing cold house with one gas fire and how hard I was really trying. Luckily I got a job at 15, saved up hard and spent it all on extra tutor help so I could get to university and am now a post graduate (but don't earn loads!). So glad that teachers are more sensitive these days.

Combination of boo and awkward.

Worked really hard on A level economics in first term. Really deflated at report that said very little of value despite my essay getting an A+ and high praise.

Shrugged it off, then my pal (same class, we sat together) told me she had got wonderful report and her parents so delighted, they were rewarding her with 'something big', I congratulated her and she said report made much of her excellent essay. 'Which is funny, she says, because I've not handed one it yet!'

Yup, he had mixed us up. I got hers, she got mine. And i didnt have the heart or courage to challenge it.

She had got a reward from her parents for my report.

Cant remember much of my reports. But yr2 secondary the teacher lost my report. I used to call him mr hopeless.

I was a very quiet, well-behaved kid so all my reports were glowing

Although there was one that’s stayed in my mind. Our report system would list end-of-year objectives and we’d have four boxes for teachers to tick. Something like excellent, good, satisfactory and requires attention (a nice way to say “fucking diabolical”) When I was about 13, my PE teacher ticked the requires attention box for jumping Jumping! How bad is it possible to be at jumping?

I do remember one report said I had terrible fitness levels. My mum went in and complained about that one.

“Spends more time doodling boyfriends names and lovehearts on the cover of her book than actually writing in it, and is a constant distraction to her classmates”

Wasn’t wrong..,

I still have all of my secondary school reports (1980-1985) in a drawer. They are a great source of amusement to me. I honestly think I would have an adhd/Asperger diagnosis if I were at school today. I was too of the class in almost every subject but I had the attention span of zero, was disruptive, and really struggled socially and mentally.

Too - top

Any report ever written by a PE teacher. All of them were dreadful. But I went to a failing school and was one of the handful of people who did the work, passed exams, didn't verbally abuse the teachers, etc, so when my year 9 PE teacher told me I had to put some effort in to PE lessons or I could end up expelled, I laughed at him. It's not surprising the PE department disliked me after that, and it didn't bother me either. Let them write what they like. Being shit at PE has in no way negatively impacted my life.

Mulberry is immature.

I was in Y1 at Primary school, so aged 5.

The teacher was a horrible wrinkled dragon who was about 425 years old and so scary. She smacked the back of my legs so hard my feet left the floor and she left fingerprints. My DM went in to school and wiped the floor with her and she left shortly after, she was a nasty, vile bully who loved making us all cry!

“Paddington’s work in CDT is very good when she tries. Unfortunately this is hardly ever”.

“Paddington is again slipping in to a vague and forgetful phase. At this stage I am not sure we can even enter her for GCSE coursework nevermind the exam.” ( I got an A in that subject )

"HildaZelda has a problem with maths and with self confidence" - bitch of a nun who I had for maths in secondary school.

She constantly put me down in class and held me up to the rest of the class as an example of how she couldn't believe someone could be so useless, which resulted in bullying at school that I never told anyone about.

As well as that I had a shit situation at home where I was being physically, mentally and emotionally abused. I know that some of the teachers had cottoned onto it because both my English and Home Ec teacher were always nice to me, asking me if everything was okay etc. My English teacher once said something along those lines to my mother at a parent-teacher meeting and my mother came home and laid into me about how I 'needed to keep my mouth shut'.

So yeah, no wonder I had a problem with self confidence. I still do.

In year 9 (third year High School in my day lol) for CDT, Octopus has shown little interest in this subject as her grades reflect. She is often late to the lesson and is more interested in talking and time wasting than working.

We moved when I finished infants and in my new school the first year I got good marks for all the subjects but the teacher said I daydreamed. My mum was furious but the teacher then left (no connection honest, but I didn't like the school and I wish it had been me that left instead) so I don't know if my mum took any action I suspect that she did

DD got one in Juniors that marked her down on one subject that she'd just passed an external graded examination in. I was seething about that one!

I've written about this before.

Ds got one that said "miniyou are needs to take care W when writing to spell his learned words correctly"

She'd spelt ds name wrong 😂😂

Loved his teacher though and she was brilliant with him. We had a good giggle and she printed me off one with the correct spelt name.

Ds however still has a spelling age of a 6yo - at 14.

not a report but at parent’s evening my maths teacher told my mum and dad that ‘if sunshine was as focused on her work as her own appearance she would be a top set student.’ he also told them that i spent half my time ‘flirting with fellow classmates,’ and showed them a notebook he’d confiscated from me where every week i’d list the ‘top 10 fittest lads’ in the school 🙈