ds2 brought home his school report it said.....

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H has very much enjoyed learning to play the recorder this year ...er wtf..he's never played the recorder lol

lol Think yourself lucky he never had to pratise playing it at home then...DDs used to drive me mad with tortuous tuneful renditions of london's burning

Are you sure he hasn't been doing it in class? DD2 got to learn the ukelele in class last year - I had no idea.
This year it is African drums.

Re DS2, I had "X has enjoyed developing his numeracy skills...then Y (boy who sits next to him) continues to work hard at blah blah, followed by references to "she".

I think the teachers' cut and paste skills sometimes need some work . Or they just need more time - but when they cock up part of a report like that it sort of invalidates all the rest of it IYSWIM - you start doubting whether any of it is actually true.

I had this - "Ds1 has enjoyed learning the guitar" - what guitar would that be? As we have to pay for such things I think I'd have noticed!!!!!

We get our reports today and they are a complete waste of time - totally cut and pasted. My friend informed me today that her son turned into a 'she' halfway through last year's report! They are dreadful - and from a school that does most things so well it's particularly disappointing.

I'm not expecting to read anything about any of my children that I don't already know.

Are you sure he hasn't done it in music at school?

Reports at DD's school are actually really good - very detailed. Yes, there is a sentence on each subject that is same for all, but rest is really personalised.
But then there are far less of them in her class than in many classes in other schools.

Have to admit when I was teaching I did cut and paste, but I always duble checked them, they then went to orm tutor to re-ckeck, and then head of year had them, read through them (checked again) and made a comment to child - so hopefully any errors were missed. But I didn;t cut and paste everything. I just tended to se similar phrases, so made sense to do it easy way - especially whem at secondary level, I ould have 100+ reports to write at a time.

no, he was going to do recorder but changed his mind !

I once had 'ds really enjoyed a session on Indian dance'. ds was mystified as, he told me, 'she sent me out when we had that and I missed it.'

I remembered it too, because he had been really upset to miss out (he has always loved anything musical).

most teachers will cut and paste

but it's very sloppy not to proofread and change pronouns and names

esp if it's in the personalized parts. I agree with goobledigook in that I never read anythign I don't already know about dd