Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm just watching this Yo Samdy Sam video and already noticing (in spite of her posh, private school education - privilege alert!) that many of the teachers' observations are almost exaclty the same as on my own. Almost eerily, in fact, although I went to a very rough comprehensive in the North East of England. My reports were, on the face of it, rather good, but there are some little asides which indicate constant high levels of anxiety combined with my supposed "giftedness" (I was actually terrified into appearing "gifted", I now think). When I look back, I'm getting more of a feeling of, "My goodness - what did they do to me?" Very interesting, I think, And I'll probably reflect some more on this as I watch the rest. My "giftedness" didn't exactly carry over into most of the workplaces I got myself trapped in and I then experienced decades of anxiety and fairly poor mental health. So... and if you care to share, how was it for you? www.youtube.com/watch
I still have an old school report, I posted it here a few years ago and I'm reposting it.
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My school days were a continuous living nightmare.
I'm very upset at the mod removing my school report.
So I am reposting it with the offending details, teachers name, headmaster and school name blurred out.
Thank goodness some of that wording would not be acceptable now and it shouldn’t have been then. If a pupil has difficulties in some areas but is trying then a teacher should never be so critical. Sadly that’s often how they were back then.