MejiLoyon:
I don't believe this story.... Every report card after the teachers comment it must go through the headmaster or proprietress. Na from there them go don correct am. Trust me I know

thats your own opinion.

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In some private school, you are not even allow to fail students..

I see nothing wrong in those comments btw..

Which kind yeye comments be that? He shouldnt have been that direct biko. Eg, Good performance but Kunle needs to work on participating more in class. Instead of saying too quiet

Fair performance, Deborah needs to socialise more with other well performing students. Instead of saying she keeps gang

Excellent performance, Chukwuemeka needs to be less playful...instead of saying too playful

Good performance, Amarachi needs to work on being more cooperative with her teachers.....instead saying shes rude

I don't think your friend meant any harm. Besides, the comment section is there to be used for all sorts of feedbacks, good or bad. But then again, his choice of words aren't exactly the best. He wrote as if he was talking about some boys he met on the street and not his own students whose well-being really matters to him. Next time, let him make the message more personal (by using the kid's name and using expressions in place of single nouns). And most importantly, he shouldn't define any kid by the flaws shown within the report period (I think this is the most glaring fault here). Instead, he should make it clear the flaws are periodic too.

For example, the comment, "he is a truant" makes it seem as if you're calling the kid names. It's as if the teacher has already given up on the child. The same comment could be written as "Eric has missed classes a couple of times this term without permission and this has affected her performance negatively". It still means the same thing but significantly better. Using his name shows connection; specifying the period shows it's a moment in the kid's life and not who he is; using the expression "missed classes without permission" in place of "truant" shows respect for the kid and his parents; adding the effect of the truancy shows concern

Let's not forget parents send thier kids to school to correct these things and not just to observe them and give reports.

should a student with good attitude have remarks of it on his card? if yes. why should the one with bad attitude be an exception.

Amotolongbo:
These comments are nonsense and unnecessary.

Can he also allow this kinda comment to be written on his own card?

Private schools are the proprietors’ business and no one will stand watching and allow his business to be spoilt by a silly person.

The school has principal and proprietor. If any student is rude or disrespectful, why not reporting the student to the proprietor or teacher who will find a way of reaching out to the parent? rf

This kinda silly comment can have a way of affecting the students’ future if one is not careful.
Which employer will see this kind of report card later in the future and employ the child having such comment by his/her class teacher?

ok

laplace12:


Truth?

For a kid that doesn't know the left from the right.

There is such a thing as age of accountability.

typing nonsense..... Any child above 4yrs knows the difference between good and bad this days.

I wonder what will become of school in the future.

I support the teacher 100%. In our days when you score 0, the teacher will draw it with eyes, nose and mouth. But this days teachers are not allowed to fail student.

I went to public school and the last time i saw my report cards, I felt proud of myself. The report cards does not shape your future, its just memory, I dont want it to be laced with lies

officialmario:

He is not active in class (He needs to be encouraged to show more interest in class activities)
She keeps gang in the school (She needs to be counselled on managing peer pressure)
He is a truant. (He needs to be more regular/punctual in school)
She is rude and not respectful (She should be encouraged to relate better with the people around her)

And these should come after highlighting a positive attribute in such student.

The comments should be solution driven. If there is a place for discussion on child's pressing negative attributes, it should be on phone or face-to-face with the parents and doesn't need to wait until end of term.

WoundedLamb:
I don't think your friend meant any harm. Besides, the comment section is there to be used for all sorts of feedbacks, good or bad. But then again, his choice of words aren't exactly the best. He wrote as if he was talking about some boys he met on the street and not his own students whose well-being really matters to him. Next time, let him make the message more personal (by using the kid's name and using expressions in place of single nouns). And most importantly, he shouldn't define any kid by the flaws shown within the report period (I think this is the most glaring fault here). Instead, he should make it clear the flaws are periodic too.

For example, the comment, "he is a truant" makes it seem as if you're calling the kid names. It's as if the teacher has already given up on the child. The same comment could be written as "Eric has missed classes a couple of times this term without permission and this has affected her performance negatively". It still means the same thing but significantly better. Using his name shows connection; specifying the period shows it's a moment in the kid's life and not who he is; using the expression "missed classes without permission" in place of "truant" shows respect for the kid and his parents; adding the effect of the truancy shows concern

Let's not forget parents send thier kids to school to correct these things and not just to observe them and give reports.

Have you taught before?.... Some children can frustrate your efforts till the extent, those words he used can be the only adjective to properly qualify them.

jos4kay:
I wonder what will become of school in the future.

I support the teacher 100%. In our days when you score 0, the teacher will draw it with eyes, nose and mouth. But this days teachers are not allowed to fail student

the proprietor or proprietress will tell u to upgrade the student mark from 46 to 60.

This is very common in private schools.. although I agree with the fact that the teacher could have been more constructive in his English but the truth should not be covered up. This comments should then guide the parents in scolding the child

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officialmario:


the proprietor or proprietress will tell u to upgrade the student mark from 46 to 60.

I dont believe the result they sent from school for my kids. During Covid I check his maths note, it was empty. I have to start to teach him from plus n minus.

jos4kay:


I dont believe the result they sent from school for my kids. During Covid I check his maths note, it was empty. I have to start to teach him from plus n minus.

80% of private sch na scam, i remember when i was still teaching in one nursery school in ibadan, a woman always come and bribe me to give her daughter first position.

sisisioge:
Which kind yeye comments be that? He shouldnt have been that direct biko. Eg, Good performance but Kunle needs to work on participating more in class. Instead of saying too quiet

Fair performance, Deborah needs to socialise more with other well performing students. Instead of saying she keeps gang

Excellent performance, Chukwuemeka needs to be less playful...instead of saying too playful

Good performance, Amarachi needs to work on being more cooperative with her teachers.....instead saying shes rude

i appreciate ur comment
noted

It's just common sense and use of diplomacy, there are more subtle words that passes across this message and still provides recommendations, use your heads that is why you went.to school, .
These remarks feels.like the teacher has a personal issues with the child,

Attitude like this won't take him very far in life. Politics and diplomacy is the oil with which we eat this life , the guys who feel being direct is cool, often become a problem to everyone around them, they hardly rise in the economic ladder and end up being those old aggressive men who take life too seriously and blame the younger generation for everything

DesChyko:

And these should come after highlighting a positive attribute in such student.

The comments should be solution driven. If there is a place for discussion on child's pressing negative attributes, it should be on phone or face-to-face with the parents and doesn't need to wait until end of term.

So what is the difference between telling the parents face to face and writing it on the child's report card? The wait period? Will it still change the fact that the child has bad behaviour that has to be cautioned?

These days, education has gone to the dogs, even parenting, you'd see some parents pampering their child in an obvious wrong doing, enabling nonsense, without knowing they are destroying the child little by little,

Proprietors of private schools nko, telling teachers not to do this and that cos that they don't want to loose students because of money, thereby enabling nonsense.

During my time, I didn't even go to a public school, I went to the best private school in KANO state from early to the late 90s, and they beat us wella, in my report card, my class teacher always say that I'm troublesome, and always make noise in class, which is the truth cos me sef know say I dey very troublesome when I was small, my parents never picked offense, instead, they cautioned me and also assigned a very wicked teacher(uncle Ejimadu, God rest his soul) to discipline me, and today, I'm better for it.

We need to stop enabling kids of these days all in the name of trying to be woke.

Biglittlelois:



So what is the difference between telling the parents face to face and writing it on the child's report card? The wait period? Will it still change the fact that the child has bad behaviour that has to be cautioned?

The difference is that the comment section doesn't give room for instant messaging. It doesn't give room for a conversation. And it can only contain a limited number of information. Nothing beats handling ills as soon as they are confirmed.

These days, education has gone to the dogs, even parenting, you'd see some parents pampering their child in an obvious wrong doing, enabling nonsense, without knowing they are destroying the child little by little.

All of these are mentoring and parenting faults. They have no connection to the topic at hand.

Proprietors of private schools nko, telling teachers not to do this and that cos that they don't want to loose students because of money, thereby enabling nonsense.

This is very prevalent in private schools. It shouldn't be encouraged at all.

During my time, I didn't even go to a public school, I went to the best private school in KANO state from early to the late 90s, and they beat us wella, in my report card, my class teacher always say that I'm troublesome, and always make noise in class, which is the truth cos me sef know say I dey very troublesome when I was small, my parents never picked offense, instead, they cautioned me and also assigned a very wicked teacher(uncle Ejimadu, God rest his soul) to discipline me, and today, I'm better for it.

We all know how it was then. Unfortunately, things like that are punishable by law these days. The current education codes applicable in Nigeria today are heavily child-centred. Schools these days are made to incorporate Child care and safety standards. Most of those common place practices then are being shown for the dehumanizing and derogatory practices they are today. One must conform to the 21st century standards.

We need to stop enabling kids of these days all in the name of trying to be woke.

I won't pretend to understand what you mean by 'being woke' in this case but if as adults, you are unwilling to conform to today's demands in the field, what moral justification do we have over a child's unwillingness to outgrow their childish tendencies?

officialmario:
I wonder the kind of people establishing schools nowdays, for you to be a proprietor or proprietress of a school you need to have studied EDUCATION in school so as to have the clear understanding of how to handle your school and the entire staff, my friend made some comment on some of his students report card and he is in trouble now
these are some of the comment.
He is not active in class
She keeps gang in the school
He is a truant.
She is rude and not respectful, those are some of the comment he made, and the proprietor told him to go and apologize to the parent for the comment made on their children's result,
the guy has refuse and has been fired for nt apologizing.

Whats your opinion on this?
did you get any comment that made your parent to be mad at you while in secondary school?

D Guy Should Av Apologized Na. Those Comments Are Strong Na. U Know Dat Private Sch Is A Business Too. No Proprietor/proprietress Will Be Happy To Lose Students Unnecessarily Because It's 4rm Them They Get Money To Pay The Teachers. He Should Av Obeyed The Proprietor/proprietress. There Is No Big Deal Apologizing. I'm Sorry Alone Can Solve Many Issues.

Some can be so funny on this forum
So we should not say the truth becos of ward, parents or the scbool owner
Let call spade a spade
What is not good is not good, it doesnt have any other name is not good we will still call it
For heaven sake this is a report card whichypu have to give a comment on the behavior of the ward
Thats why it called an academics report and moral report
Damn! Some just dey talk shit for here
These reports even helps the parents to know what the child is hiding from them
I could remember back in those day primary school and secondary shool those comments on our card helps our parents to know the kind of things we are capable of doing in school and it will belp them to teach us more at home
Ogbeni, make we no dey deceive ourselves wetin the owner of the school no make sense
Better still the owner of the school should have given them words to write on the card to favor the kids
This is what the principal of my PPA during youth service in taraba did
He made sure we wrote all those sweet things to favor the kids
But those behavior are deadlier than boko haram in school

Apology to the parent? Na him talk say make their pikin become unknown gunman

Send Lange

babajeje123:

Everything is wrong in those comments. Comments on a student's report should be what they did well and areas of improvement.

Exactly, any other discoveries should be told to the parents directly. That's an official document it can affect the child's future, someone can use that "gang comment" against him especially if the ward is contesting for a position and that "truant" comment is over top.

The thing wey I wan tok.. Gbadebo01, sisisioge, WoundedLamb, DesChyko, all of dem don tok am finish..

You don't just capitalize on the shortcomings or wrongdoings of others, that's why there's something called "constructive criticism".. Everybody is giving comparison about how things were done during their own time, everybody dey tok sey na all those "naked truth" catapult us reach where we dey now.. Indeed, quite alot of Nigerians do not know much about mental health, yet everybody say they're depressed, some are at the brink of commiting suicide, there are expectations, nobody cares to actually put themselves in the shoes of others, empathy means nothing, "make we just tok am like dat jare afterall we sef see the one wey worse pass this one", everybody is frustrated, tomorrow when e commit suicide, "ehyaaa and im dey hardworking, she dey very nice, dem no get wahala, wetin cause am, but e no suppose reach laidis na", na like this e dey start sha, small small water go don pass bridge.. Anyways, I don't intend to digress further

I am not oblivious to the fact that education is purely business to private school owners.. Most of them are not educationists, they probably did their research and closed in on the idea of running a school just cos it's a decently lucrative venture.. Most run their schools in a way that they are more than ready to lower the already low Nigerian standard of education just to give assurance of undiluted satisfaction to their clients; more clients = more money.. In that same vein, anything/anybody that will stand as a stumbling block to their constant cash inflow is automatically a threat and they won't as much as bat an eyelid to crush it..

Wrong choice of words on the part of your friend though but the school telling him to apologize to the parents is just outrageous.. Apologize for what exactly? For being blunt about it, but that wouldn't actually change anything rather it'd make it seem like the parents are enabling the children, that they're okay with their excesses afterall they got that "aproko" teacher to beg..

Personally yh, for me bah, I prefer being told directly, even if the teacher wants to be blunt about it, I'd respect that.. Just tell me in the heat of the moment so I know what I'm up against and lay down plans to tackle it as e dey hot, no worry about proprietor/proprietress, na only "bring money" "bring thiss, bring thaat" those ones know, I'm more concerned about my wards moral conduct, academic progress & total well-being . If my pikin do anyhow for sch, onkuu teacher/hanty teacher please feel free to call me/flash me, send me an sms, I go call you back still appreciate you kindly, if you maa wan come house no wahala.. Open Day, tell me every every, no hide anything, no fear, just be real with me, let's help nurture reasonably responsible intellectuals..

Yes, na true sey las las pikin wey wan spoil go spoil, whether teacher inform their parents as e dey happen or dem write am for end of term report card, whether dem write am anyhow for there or dem soffry write am.. Wetin I know be say, there are many ways to pass a message across; be logical about it.. No be everybody dey see am as driving force to be better, some people have anxiety issues, some get depressed, some don't see any reason to forge ahead, some feel worthless and just need one mean statement to "officially throw in the towel".


- My 2kobo sha

chidieberesk3:
Have you taught before?.... Some children can frustrate your efforts till the extent, those words he used can be the only adjective to properly qualify them.

Yes, I have.

And no, I wouldn't call my student "a thief" on his report simply cause he stole things during the term. I'd rather state it that he stole things. Kids are kids and their actions don't define them. Calling him a thief simply means the teacher has resigned to fate. And no parent would stand you calling thier kid a thief. That's an example of what I'm trying to say, sir.

officialmario:
I wonder the kind of people establishing schools nowdays, for you to be a proprietor or proprietress of a school you need to have studied EDUCATION in school so as to have the clear understanding of how to handle your school and the entire staff, my friend made some comment on some of his students report card and he is in trouble now
these are some of the comment.
He is not active in class
She keeps gang in the school
He is a truant.
She is rude and not respectful, those are some of the comment he made, and the proprietor told him to go and apologize to the parent for the comment made on their children's result,
the guy has refuse and has been fired for nt apologizing.

Whats your opinion on this?
did you get any comment that made your parent to be mad at you while in secondary school?

WHEN IN ROME,BEHAVE LIKE A ROMAN!SO,IF PARENTS WITHDRAW THEIR KIDS,WHERE WULD HIS SALARY COME FROM?HE WAS SACKED BCS HE REFUSED TO TAKE ORDERS FROM HIS EMPLOYER!

duro4chang:
That is the practice in private schools. Costomers are always right.

there are some instance where customers will not be right, some customers can be useless at times.

When the owner of the school is a stark illiterate, the staff will suffer seriously.

Truvel:
D Guy Should Av Apologized Na. Those Comments Are Strong Na. U Know Dat Private Sch Is A Business Too. No Proprietor/proprietress Will Be Happy To Lose Students Unnecessarily Because It's 4rm Them They Get Money To Pay The Teachers. He Should Av Obeyed The Proprietor/proprietress. There Is No Big Deal Apologizing. I'm Sorry Alone Can Solve Many Issues.

Apologize on top 16k
#200 transport everyday

You are supposed to focus on the kids strength not weakness.

officialmario:
I wonder the kind of people establishing schools nowdays, for you to be a proprietor or proprietress of a school you need to have studied EDUCATION in school so as to have the clear understanding of how to handle your school and the entire staff, my friend made some comment on some of his students report card and he is in trouble now
these are some of the comment.
He is not active in class
She keeps gang in the school
He is a truant.
She is rude and not respectful, those are some of the comment he made, and the proprietor told him to go and apologize to the parent for the comment made on their children's result,
the guy has refuse and has been fired for nt apologizing.

Whats your opinion on this?
did you get any comment that made your parent to be mad at you while in secondary school?

Your friend is not wise. The whole system is built on hypocrisy he should have pretend to be one. Especially in schools, parents know their kids behaviour all they need is for you to be silent, modern day teachers should flee from commenting on child moral especially private school. The whole system is totally different now. We all know our politicians are thieves but we still support them to get what we want. As a teacher, pick your comments and i blame the school for not giving him comment guide.

officialmario:
Apologize on top 16k #200 transport everyday

U Should Av Said Dat U Av Anoda Reason.

officialmario:

80% of private sch na scam, i remember when i was still teaching in one nursery school in ibadan, a woman always come and bribe me to give her daughter first position.

Homeschooling all the way. I pity parents who allow these con men and women scam them of their hard earned money.