I've just read my entire secondary school reports - I'm [shock]

[Orinoco]

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Well, sounds to me like you were right not them

How bizarre.
Was reading memoirs of Profumo's son in DT today,and he said his father never let him read his.He always read them out,changing wording.

Hi Orinoco - I've heard that about "that" school - one of my best friends' parents sent her there for A levels and she ended up really stressed out and smoking + drinking quite heavily during her exams - not v. smart as she was doing Music with wind instruments being her specialised instruments

LOL! I once got 93% in an exam and the teacher wrote beside it "Could work harder"
My Mum just laughed and said, "How hard does she want to to work?" and left it at that.

i had a teacher tell me I would never amount to anything - had the last laugh. Went back to old high school as part of my PGCE prac and he kept looking at me trying to place where he knew me from. I finally told him I was the girl who would never amount to anything and if that is what he thought of his own profession then I guess he was right.

I went to a private secondary school that I hated from the age of 14-17. The teachers there were a nightmare. I did fine in my exams and their comments were still "uselss concentration, not interested in work, immature " etc. I decided to leave half way through my A-Levels to start A-Levels at a six form college (my best decision ever!) and my final report from the head teacher had a balck piece of paper stapled to the back of it and said "To see what hockeymum will amount to in her life, please see attached sheet"

Thankfully, that was when I realised that I was a whole lot better than her or any of those other bully teachers and pupils and found a college and subjects that I wanted to do and did very well indeed. I don't resent them, I'm just glad I've made more of my life than they have. In some ways it gave me the push to realise that life is what I make it, and from then I've made the most of all the opportunities available and enjoy my life!

Gosh hm - & your parents paid out for that!! thank goodness you left.

goodness orinoco - what awful things teachers can write.

lol eidsvold

I did this recently while packing up the house. Its like reading a different reality which i guess is how teenagers and authority figures must live! The one that stuck is "meowmix writes briefly' from an english teacher. that still cracks me up but also liked comments about not being carried away by my own creativity (aka please dress normally for once).

I think that if teachers don't like you there's nothing you can do - they'll see what they want to see - during A levels I suffered with migraines and had gone home one day with a severe attack. My Mum was there (unusually) and looked after me on the couch all day, coz it was a really bad one. At the next parents evening (a couple of weeks later), my English teacher said that I was a habitual skiver and said she'd seen me in school just before her lesson that day, that I was fine, and that I must have just skipped her class. This was the only example she had (coz I didn't skip her class - I really enjoyed English!) and when my Mum challenged her and said she KNEW I'd been ill, and hadn't been at school, the teacher basically called her a liar.

Well..... My mum complained to the head of dept and I don't know what happened but that teacher had a nervous breakdown a couple of weeks later and never came back! Apparently there were quite a few complaints about her!

I read mine a few years ago and was frankly amazed (and ashamed) to see that week after week, the teacher would pull me up on a certain aspect of schoolwork - not labelling diagrams for example, and week after week I made exactly the same errors blithely ignoring her comments.

I must've been infuriating, I was angry at myself!!

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Are we talking private schools in NOttingham here? If so can you name them as need some advice for mine's future ed

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BTW, O's headteacher has confirmed she is leaving at the end of this academic year.

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squidgemiller, I went to the parents evening (for my brother) with my mum a few weeks after my dad died. One teacher said that db hadn't been in school much in hte last couple of weeks and that he'd skived off an important test on a certain date. She asked 'where was x on that day, do you know?'. My response was 'yes, at our dad's funeral'.

2/3 years later, I went again to parents evening with my mum. db had 2 history A-level teachers; the first one said x is the worst pupil I have ever had. he is lazy, argumentative, etc. Next history teacher said 'x is one of the brightest and well behaved pupils I've ever taught.

Who is right? who has the ultimate say? exam results? school reports?