AIBU to think the wording in this high school transition book isn't great?

[Whatswiththesmalltalk]

Dd recieved a transition booklet to look through, I'm assuming most kids transitioning to high school recieved these. The part that bothered me in particular was the are you an average or an awesome kid? It listed attributes of average kids such as not putting your hand up. I get the idea behind it but I don't understand the need for labelling kids who feel uneasy raising their hand or lacking in confidence as average. Surely that will only do the opposite of what was intended. I've attatched an image.

Put them in a box and churn them out

This will be some PE teacher ( who has been ill advisedly promoted to SLT) trying to impress with a bit of something he's copy and pasted from somewhere

So true! Always beware of SLT bearing basketballs...

I'm just so cross about this. We get 5 minutes per teacher for parents evening. The first 2 minutes with every teacher is "I wish she would talk in my class/she's very shy". What they don't realise is that just getting on the bus and walking through the school gates is a massive achievement for her.

She comes home from school utterly exhausted and sits silently on the sofa. She doesn't start talking until dinner time, because it takes her that long to decompress.

But she's 'kid average'. No she's 'kid awesome' because she's battling and winning.

There's perhaps a distorted perception among teachers in general and SLT in particular because these are roles you are unlikely to thrive in if you're shy. SLT staff, good and poor, generally like standing up in front of people and being big fish in their little ponds.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

This will be some PE teacher ( who has been ill advisedly promoted to SLT) trying to impress with a bit of something he's copy and pasted from somewhere

So true! Always beware of SLT bearing basketballs...

Christ Almighty.

The Head inflicting this 'It's Your Fault For Not Thinking Like A Middleaged & Middleclass White Person' shit on the poor, vulnerable and disabled was originally a PE teacher.

I'm surprised schools are still peddling the Growth Mindset nonsense. We had a teacher who lived and breathed it. She was possibly the worst teacher any of us had ever worked with. The kids came out of her class with a great feeling of self worth and confindence, but had obviously done no proper work during their year

The kids came out of her class with a great feeling of self worth and confindence

Did they also have improved handwriting courtesy of Magic fucking Link?