Report Card/ Teacher Comments You Recall

[Beezer]

I remember 3...

On one music report card my teacher wrote, "Beezer always plays soooo musically!"

The next year a different music teacher wrote in my report card, "Beezer would excel at music, but he'd have to be awake." lol!

On one of my Economic Exams my teacher wrote, "I just read a pile of made up nonsense. This is 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back." lol!!!

Do you remember any funny/ poignant/ strange comments your teachers made back in the day?

 

[Lavinia]

'Could do better' was on all my reports.

 

[Tish]

In Religious studies, asks too many questions.

 

[Della]

From first grade through twelfth it was always, "daydreams in class."

 

[Pepper]

My very first report card in first grade was all U's (Unsatisfactory) with red circles around them.

 

[officerripley]

Only comment I remember--probably just as well I don't remember most of them--is that I needed to participate in more social activities.

 

[C50]

I only have one report card from school and that is from Kindergarden. I will have to paraphrase but at the end of the year the teacher wrote "C50 is very distracted and excitable, he finishes his work quickly but disrupts the class. I believe his behavior will cause many problems as he moves foreward". She nailed it.

 

[NorthernLight]

A teacher told my father I was "inevitably late" for class. He said, "If it's inevitable, there's no point in discussing it."

 

[MsFox]

It was not uncommon to see, "She doesn't play well with others."

 

[hollydolly]

I don't remember any comments on mine.. I know I was always terrified to take it home..

 

[JustDave]

I remember lists of stock comments where the teacher could check satisfactory/unsatisfactory. I remember getting "unsatisfactory" on "Is learning self control" quite regularly.

 

[jujube]

I got a lot of "She needs to try harder."

I was dyslexic. Nobody at my school knew anything about dyslexia, apparently.

When you're dyslexic, you can "try" til you're blue in the face and those words still won't behave themselves in your brain.

 

[Murrmurr]

"Frank is a very bright student, and I enjoy having him in my classroom. It will be such a shame when he is expelled for fighting."

 

[Murrmurr]

In Religious studies, asks too many questions.

Ha! Classic.

 

[Della]

My very first report card in first grade was all U's (Unsatisfactory) with red circles around them.

We all know you're smart, so I can only blame bad teaching. What decent first grade teacher can't find one nice thing to say about a little girl?
Too bad we couldn't have sent in Uncle Buck.

 

[Kika]

A hard worker. She needs to stop entertaining her neighbors during class time.

 

[hollydolly]

"Frank is a very bright student, and I enjoy having him in my classroom. It will be such a shame when he is expelled for fighting."

so Michelle wrote this yesterday ... now tell us what your teacher wrote...

 

[JaniceM]

A hard worker. She needs to stop entertaining her neighbors during class time.

Was that possibly a NY thing? I recall some of my teachers- especially the older ones in elementary school- referring to other kids in the class as one's "neighbors." Was kinda nice.

 

[officerripley]

We all know you're smart, so I can only blame bad teaching. What decent first grade teacher can't find one nice thing to say about a little girl?
Too bad we couldn't have sent in Uncle Buck.

 

[JaniceM]

Thanks for posting that.. I didn't know who Uncle Buck was.

 

[Kika]

Was that possibly a NY thing?

I really don't know. I never went to school anywhere else. I'll have to check with my son and daughter-in-law. Both are teachers in Pa.

 

[jujube]

In Religious studies, asks too many questions.

My late husband spent his school years with the Benedictines. They're tough. I saw one of his report cards and he had an "F" in Moral Guidance. I asked what got him an F in Moral Guidance. He said, "Asking the wrong questions..."

 

[Della]

No offence to anyone with imperfect skin, I'm a walking, illustrated textbook for dermatology myself, but Uncle Buck is a bit distracted here. He's babysitting for a week when he gets a call for his little niece's teacher's conference.

 

[Nathan]

I don't remember any comments on mine.. I know I was always terrified to take it home..

Parent's were supposed to sign the report card to verify that they had seen it. I got good at signing my mom's name on my report card, all was well until I got caught smoking in the parking lot, got suspended from school...parent required to have conference with the principal. My mom asked, said she hadn't seen any report cards for a while....I was dead meat!

 

[Pepper]

I was also excellent in forging my mother's signature as early as elementary school!