School Report calls pupil 'Wally'

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Has anyone read this - I don't know what appals me most, the fact that it happened or the fact that the council said
"We are also very concerned that this document ended up where it did," the council concluded.
.... which means they're just as concerned that someone blabbed!!
Article here

am guessing it was an internal document rather than a report which went to parents.

silly silly school for leaving it lying around.

I expect it was a bit of fun for the teachers. Not intended for anyone else's eyes.

I am a teacher and believe me I have heard far worse then ' wally ' and 'dingbat'!

I know some ex pupils of this school, and I am sure they would have expected worse than wally and dingbat tbh!

I did wonder though, if I found this would I hand it back to the school and accept that teachers are human and write stuff like this, or would I take it to the press.

s'like women finding GROLIES on their medical records.

Bit shocked when they discovered it was an acronym for 'Guardian Reader Of Limited Intelligence In Ethnic Skirt'.

A school I work in has a Wally of the Week award - it's for staff though.

Friend of mine has just finished writing unofficial diary of yr6 week away - it's hilarious!

PS - did anyone else notice that the woman who handed in the report was called 'Bernice'.

Not that I'm being judgemental or anything...

Like donnie I heard a lot worse during my time teaching.

In my first year of teaching (in the days of handwritten reports) my flatmate got hold of the reports I had discarded due to errors.
What she wrote was shocking but very very very funny ... I still get an ache in my side thinking about it ...
These reports however remained in my flat and were eventually thrown away.

I do think, that if this report at Howard School was an official one then the language is unprofessional and a bit pathetic. I have never worked in a school where a working document used anything other than professional language. There are however, many ways to call a person a wally without using the word 'wally'

I taught for a while, and believe me, the staffroom chit-chat about the kids was a lot worse than 'wally'!

I've heard worse.

I even call kids wally, dingbat and muppet.

So shoot me now.

How dreadful to strip out all these amusing words. leaving teachers with the sterile vocabulary of the managment drone.

Stupid to leave it lying round.

Personally I think it's disgraceful. I'm sure all you teachers have heard worse but to put it in writing is plain stupid. And to put it in writing in an official document meant is just shocking. This was a document meant to "provide targets and strategies for improvement" - how the hell is calling someone a dingbat suggesting ways for that person to improve. Totally unprofessional.

I called one of my pupils a muppet, and he looked really shocked - I reminded him that "muppet" for a pianist was a compliment on his wonderful wrists and that if I started calling him "Thunderbirds" that would be an insult.