School reports - how were yours?

Ditto - quiet quiet quiet, good student, should talk more, blah blah blah

Gosh! It's so long ago that I think I would need to retrieve my reports (if I still have them) to refresh my memory. However, I seem to recall that I was often described as quiet and shy. As I progressed through secondary school, I think many of my subject teachers felt there was room for improvement and that I needed to apply myself more. The exception was English, although I certainly wasn't what I would describe as "gifted" in that subject.

I struggled when it came to choosing my GCSE options, I very much felt like it was a case of choosing the best from a bad bunch. From my perspective, the focus appeared to be very much on being academically gifted or proficient at sports, and that just wasn't me at all.

Hard working, good grades, good all-rounder (except PE), quiet, needs to participate more. That was pretty much every school report I got. I can't remember if I was explicitly told that I needed more friends.

In retrospect, I wonder how I managed going to a very big (1,500 pupils) secondary school, involving a long commute on buses and Tube every day, not to mention bullies, but I had a mini-burnout in the Sixth Form and a bigger one at university, so the answer is probably that I <i>didn't</i> manage it, I just postponed the collapse.

I think mine were something along the lines of 'quiet, doesn't mix with the other children' and things like that.

i never did homework. im very strict on my time in everything. any work should be done at work, or at school... homework is a invasion into private time and shouldnt be a thing in my eyes. its taking private time they are not entitled to take. if work cant be done in your school time, then they are incompetent at managing your school time.

• Most of my school reports were similar, Roy is quiet, he doesn’t make himself feel present in a group. He isn’t a team player. You can see the picture. One teacher was different, I was a pupil of hers when I was 11 years old. I would go on holiday with her, not just one my own, normally about 6 boys. We would go fishing to Ireland. There was nothing Pervy about it. When I went to get an apprenticeship she wrote me a reference, it basically said that I was a good trustworthy person. She then said that I had problem solving skills that she had never encountered in 30 years of teaching. I never knew why I was different then. 
  I have watched a lot of Sam’s videos, I do tend to agree with you.

Yes, there were occasions at my school, "Sunnydale" (NB  It wasn't a sunny experience there and it wasn't set in a pleasant dale!) where a teacher would run out crying.  And yes, they needed riot gear at times, especially in the corridors between lessons and in the school yard.  

I accomplished a lot of my education at home, reading around what we were supposed to have learnt in class and taking ages on my homework, because it wasn't possible to study hard in the very noisy and often disrupted lessons and, even if they'd been quieter, I was too terrified to focus and deifinitely too scared to speak in class.   

My reports are so boring. I did the work, but I was quiet. They never had anything personal in there at all. I just kept myself invisible.

there was one teacher, a french teacher, that liked me though. was obviously lowest grade class again due to petty bully teachers pushing me to lowest class on everything out of their hate for me.... but in the french class there was this one teacher who was trying to handle the class and struggling as its lowest class full of scum, everyone rioting and being uncontrolable and violent and ignoring her, i was the only one sitting silently and obeying orders and awaiting the class to get controlled. she couldnt control it and ended up running out crying. but she saw that i was clearly wrongly misplaced into the lower classes and had no place being in those classes and seemed shocked herself why the hell i was in that class. then when the final grades came and she saw my terrible grades while all the other troublesome rioting kids that did nothing but destroy class even got higher grades than me she was shocked by it and i think then it opened her eyes that the school and grading system is very corrupt and wrong.

i went to a public school.... they hated me so gave me bad results in everything and always made me out to be a bad student.

when infact in primary school i was top of my classes and got top marks, which at first due to high grades gave me top positions starting in high school.... then high school is where the issues started as the teachers in high school they were douchebags and did their grading and job based on who they like rather than the ability of the student so they didnt like me right away and near enough right away they force pushed me down from the top classes that my high primary school grades earned me and shoved me in the lower grade classes full of the bullies and deranged scum bags that made it impossible to learn anything because they kept disrupting the class and rioting and the teachers couldnt do anything and were the lower quality teachers in those classes who didnt care anyway.

so based on popularity contest i was robbed out of my high school potential and pushed into what i can only describe as the worst place for me to be in with the most danger to me from the scum students. caused my school life hell and i couldnt do anything because all the other students were destroying the entire class so then everyone got made to look bad and stupid there collectively all because of the scum that always wanted to riot and cause trouble. in the end i just started skipping school and jumping the fence and hanging out in bushes and trees all day until school time was over and i could go home and pretend i had been there all day.

but yeah i dont trust schools grades or teachers to this day... infact i viewed the teachers as less intelligent than me and their positioning of me based on their own head popularity contests just made me view all of society as inferior and a idiocracy that promotes based on idiot ideas of personal feelings and not by merit.... most of the students there i looked down on as most of them couldnt even read or write to any basic ability and i was clearly above every single one of them by a long shot and yet they all got given better grades than me. school was bad, and grades are a scam that do not indicate any true intelligence but is based on some petty teacher opinion but yet the teachers are stupid themselves.

after school i pretty much gave up everything, but i was forced to do a english and maths test thing, of which my maths i am naturally bad at but can often fluke and be of high quality by chance at for some reason despite hating maths and naturally being bad at it, by bad i say my maths is possibly a grade C level if i were to judge, its probably average but i call it bad and not sufficient enough.... my english was proven to be at a higher level than the high school could ever have imagined and i was told i could easily earn myself a diploma in english with very little effort at my level. my ability to learn was also proven higher as i learned how to swim when i couldnt swim at all, and that took me 1 single lesson and i mastered swimming entirely, where as the school system had a swimming course that couldnt ever teach me.

all in all the public school system is shockingly bad and i dont trust it at all now and i consider any public school grades to be fake and a scam and dont trust them at all. it also makes me slightly mad at the teachers in the teaching system for how corrupt and petty and full of hatred they are in their judgment and placing of kids based on which one they personally like more rather than ability...