Teacher has given identical reports for both twins - should I be screaming at the head?

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Have received Yr 8 reports for dds, who are not identical in either appearance or ability. While some subjects show traces of the cut and paste that I know some teachers resort to when producing reports for dozens of children in just a few days, they do seem to be considered and relevant. However one subject is absolutely identical, word for word. This is making me wonder if it is of any more use than a horoscope! DP is worried that if we make a fuss she will take it out on the children, but I feel she is being very unprofessional. Either it is an error, in which case which child does it apply to, or she is being very lazy indeed.
The subject is Art, one dd enjoys it and is ok at it but is much more interested longterm in Science and Maths, but the other is very very good at drawing and painting (well I think so anyway!) and wants to take the subject further.

Any thoughts on how I should handle this with the school?

I think this probably happens in a lot of schools. There are a lot of children, and I imagine that it isn't possible to say different things about all of the children, but a blatant copy/paste when each child is not achieving the same isn't really on.

Reports must take an age to do, although in our school, each child gets a handwritten comment from the headteacher, who writes something different and relevant for each child, and he has clearly read every single report, as he writes something personal to each child about their report. It must take him FOREVER.

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When it comes around to the reports at the school I work at sometimes it really is a case of creative writing - one or two of the children (through no fault of their own I might add) are difficult to deal with to say the least. There are some children who seem not to have the ability to fit in socially nor do they have the capacity for normal behaviour which causes problems with their school work but the adults that care for them outside of school don't seem to realise that fact and the school reports can sometimes be interesting to say the least!! It is also a sad fact that you can almost guarantee that on parents night these same parents don't turn up and you know that they never will!!

A lot of my reports are exactly the same as I have to choose three statements from a bank. I hate comment banks. If you yelled at my head about it, and she passed it down to me, I'd remind her that they are her choice...

It's down to having to do loads of reports and not really having much to say about each student and, of course, the cut and pasting. Not good at all.

DD's science teacher had to admit he had cut and pasted the wrong comment in DD's report at Parent's Evening - very noticeable as the comment stuck out like a sore thumb compared to all the other comments in the report!