WHAT THIS IS NOT MY CHILDS REPORT

[happybiggirl]

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Probably the same thing is input for each child in the class !

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Does she get to watch ?! Bet they all love swimming , lol

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Makes you doubt everything else that's in there too I guess!

then they are confused perhaps . Does the rest sound right ?

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I remember at work one of the girls being given a piano report when she had given up piano a year previously. According to the report she had worked hard and made good progress. Reason was, piano teacher couldn't remember who she was!

Would be worth checking with them!

To me it sounds like the have copied and pasted the wrong bit into the report. I tend to write one report which is the standard and then alter other bits...I don't have the time to write completly seperate reports and also there is no point as the children have covered the same work. However, i am (hopefully) good at cutting out the bits that aren't applicable and replacing them with somehting that is actually true!

When my mother (teacher at girls' grammar school) couldn't remember who someone was she used to say they were quiet and conscientious, on the grounds that it was true of most of the class so she would probably have remembered them if they weren't
I expect most of the class enjoys swimming....

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LOL, sounds to me like they have been just writing the same bog-standard comment for each child and you have caught them - I would embarrass them rigid if it was me

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You should definately say something. In my first year of teaching I worked in a school that refused to allowed typed reports so prevent this happening. I still write individual reports. I teach reception so only have 30 reports to write and I try to keep them indivdual although there are only so many ways you can say "X has good phonic knowledge but professionally they shouldn't have made a basic mistake like that

I have had this sort of thing repeatedly. On one school report it changed for my DS's name to another childs name (forgot to change that paragraph before printing??)

On DD final report at school it went on about how she had risen to the role of prefect well and shown a good example etc etc She was never a Prefect!! teacher said Isnt she oh well she would have been a good one

I went into parents evening raging about my dds report, I wanted to know why we hadn't been told that she had gone from being an angel to a disruptive influence. The teacher asked to see the report, went deathly pale and explained that it was not her report. There are 2 children with the same name in her class, only the front cover had forename and surname, and the admin staff had stapled them together wrong. I was cross but didnt go mad, we are all human and it hadnt been done deliberately to wind anyone up,
Debbie
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Certainly shouldn't happen at a small school. Must admit that teaching Music to all of KS3 in fair sized comprehensives I have gone for the safe option from time to time. When you teach 500 pupils each week for 35 min slots (for a practical subject) worthwhile comments aren't always forthcoming. Ah the good old days of really rubbish timetabling!

Although I could understand it at a large state school, I would be if this is a small private school. DS is at a small private school (in reception year) and we got a long, detailed, handwritten report from his class teacher who clearly knows him all too well ("x must learn to put his hand up and wait to be asked" - that's my boy )