officialmario:


lets call a spade a spade... The teachers are more closer to the student more than the parent.

femi4:
Comments on report card should be motivative and constructive and not destructive.

E.g He can be better if he's more active in class

Gbadebo01:


For good measure, wisdom is the principal thing.
for example.
He is not active in class could be - "He could do with participating more in class"
She keeps gang in the school could be - "I will suggest the company she keeps is vetted" and so on.
He is a truant - " He needs to improve his attendance in class"

My point is we basically said the same thing but my choice of words were chosen carefully. I mentioned where they need to improve on rather than calling them names.


#my2cents

Amotolongbo:
If a student stole the teacher’s handset, the best way to let the parent be aware is through summoning the parents to the school or sending the message to the parents to get them informed. Not through the report card

If any Teacher has any resentment for a student, it is better for the teacher to make a comment on the report card solely on academic performance of the student and leave the personality alone.

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 comments:
"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 refused 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?

blackmantis:


Exactly.....it's the way he passed the message. He was too blunt.

He needs to learn how to be diplomatic.

laplace12:


Truth?

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

There is such a thing as age of accountability.

Amotolongbo:
shallow reasoning and backward mentality.

If you are a reasonable parent, you will understand that visiting the school and seeing your child’s teacher is the best way to know your child and not waiting for the report card comment

content208:


Be reasonable for once. You leave home 4am to beat traffic and couldn't make it back home until 10pm.

So, ask yourself, Mr unshallow reasoner with forward mentality, how such a parent will have time to visit the child at school.

If your child is bad, don't seek to cover it up. Let it be reported so that you can know and discipline him adequately.

Amotolongbo:
If you know what effect this kind of comment can have on the child later in the future, you won’t like it on your ward’s report card. When a potential employer sees it.

Best thing is to visit your ward’s school occasionally to ask about his/her comportment from the class teacher and not this nonsense on the report card

obonujoker:


Some parents don't come to school at all, even after you've invite them over...

To come for open day, is another problem for them... Some have not collected 2nd term reports cards even ontop sms and WhatsApp messages...

chatinent:
Yes, there should be discretion.


I still see nothing wrong in saying the truth.

pek:
Can you tell me why it is called report card. Why there is a column for teachers to make their comments.

Omik1:


Those remarks doesn't seem like one for kids, it's more like a secondary school report cards..
Pry school can't play truance, keep gangs to my best of knowledge


If any has been a teacher before he or she would understand better..
The level of premium parents and school onwers place on their kids is the kind of results they get on the kids..

I thought in a pry school for seven years and graduated 5sets of pry 6 pupils. The ones that their parents allowed to be deciplined were far better than those who were the " leave my child, after all I pay school fees".

You all saying call the parents for a meeting, I can tell you categorically that any parent that would reject a true comments about the child would not come for meeting. You will hear "I'm busy let them do their job"

Any mind you, anything a child does at school, he or she must have done it at home. And the parents directly or indirectly know about it, they just want it to be corrected in school "after all, they pay school fees"

This is a pry school experience not SSS and school on mainland.

Amotolongbo:
Then that is not a good parent.
And you think that kinda parent will have the time to check the child’s report card?

lekki1444:
i am happy you said in your opinion because thats your opinion. in all the civilized first world countries of the world report card is for academic not behavorial assessment
you write stuff like

he needs improvement in algebra
his grasp of BODMAS is very strong
etc etc

Amotolongbo:
And the mother also has that kind of schedule?

If at no time you have, visiting your child in school once in a term or deemed it fit having the class teacher’s phone number to ask about how the child fairs in school, I’m sorry cos you aren’t fit being a parent.

Iseoluwani:


since when did you use a report card to search for job or submitted it with your CV.

the teacher wrote the truth and u feel like it is demoralizing, u guys are simply part of a failed community. I faced a similar situation with the guy, in that they told me not use red pen to write in the report card, I told them I can't rewrite what I have written.

during our days if our position was 4th downward, we are in trouble not now that ur set glorify failure

Gbadebo01:


For good measure, wisdom is the principal thing.
for example.
He is not active in class could be - "He could do with participating more in class"
She keeps gang in the school could be - "I will suggest the company she keeps is vetted" and so on.
He is a truant - " He needs to improve his attendance in class"

My point is we basically said the same thing but my choice of words were chosen carefully. I mentioned where they need to improve on rather than calling them names.


#my2cents

Amotolongbo:
If you know what effect this kind of comment can have on the child later in the future, you won’t like it on your ward’s report card. When a potential employer sees it.

Best thing is to visit your ward’s school occasionally to ask about his/her comportment from the class teacher and not this nonsense on the report card

content208:


You don't know what obtains in their homes. How are you sure the teacher hadn't make attempts to get the parents involved? Are you in the school?

Amotolongbo:
If a student stole the teacher’s handset, the best way to let the parent be aware is through summoning the parents to the school or sending the message to the parents to get them informed. Not through the report card

If any Teacher has any resentment for a student, it is better for the teacher to make a comment on the report card solely on academic performance of the student and leave the personality alone.

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 comments:
"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 refused 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?

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?

Pass the right and truthful comment on the academic performance of the student and leave the moral part for the principal to handle

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?

DesChyko:


This is usually the practice. I'm almost sure the management would have done so when the complaint came up. But I think the teacher should apologize too. So that there won't be bad blood between the teacher and ward/parents. Claims of victimization can easily come up if the bad blood isn't cleared.