Report card narratives in elementary school

[Anonymous]

Does the narrative information provide any personalized information your student? The narrative for both of my kids was extremely boiler plate -

So and so learned about maps and ordinal directions in social studies,etc. So and so learned about vowel teams.

Just curious if other schools provide personalized narratives.

[Anonymous]

Boilerplate for my DD (kindergarten)

[Anonymous]

Sounds exactly the same as my children’s ES.

[Anonymous]

Teachers just copy and paste a prescribed set of statements that apply to your child. It's for efficiency, not to provide anything meaningful to you about your child's learning. If there were problems, I'd hope you'd know about them before you got the report card!

[Anonymous]

Yup I don’t think they are allowed to write anything the sleeves anymore. All I get are the gobble gook comments that don’t seem to mean anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers just copy and paste a prescribed set of statements that apply to your child. It's for efficiency, not to provide anything meaningful to you about your child's learning. If there were problems, I'd hope you'd know about them before you got the report card!

It’s not even copy and paste. It’s a drag and drop. We don’t have any opportunity to edit those at all. At my school the grade level decides on a fixed set of comments to drag over to the report card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers just copy and paste a prescribed set of statements that apply to your child. It's for efficiency, not to provide anything meaningful to you about your child's learning. If there were problems, I'd hope you'd know about them before you got the report card!

It’s not even copy and paste. It’s a drag and drop. We don’t have any opportunity to edit those at all. At my school the grade level decides on a fixed set of comments to drag over to the report card.

We don’t decide as a grade level. I do try to drag and drop for each student if I can, but often I can’t find comments that say exactly what I am looking for. I might find one that says, “…has learned to…” but not “…needs to learn to…”. Supposedly we should be able to switch between pronoun and name, but it always puts in the name, so it reads it os just “Johnny this” and “Johnny that”.

[Anonymous]

Been boilerplate since 2006 - at least.

[Anonymous]

It has always seemed boiler plate to me

[Anonymous]

It's terrible. better to say nothing at all then to sound like a computer reporting on another computer's skills.

Obviously not the teacher's fault. Just another thing some consultant was probably paid 180k a year to develop.

[Anonymous]

I treasure my old FCPS report cards circa 1980. Handwritten notes in narrative form in teacher-perfect print and or cursive.

Don’t judge- cleaning out childhood home and this has made a sad task a bit happier.

[Anonymous]

Make an appointment to have a parent teacher conference to discuss your child. DS is in 5th grade. We have one a year regardless of how DS is doing so that we understand where he is and what we can be doing to support his growth. The comments on report cards are useless and the grades feel more like guidelines as opposed to specific markers. We know his test scores from class exams and know that he is doing well but there are a few areas that we know he could improve on. And generally speaking, we like to get to know his Teachers at least a little bit.

[Anonymous]

It's canned responses that they can choose from. Every year, my kid is a kind and respectful member of the classroom or something like that. EVERY YEAR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's canned responses that they can choose from. Every year, my kid is a kind and respectful member of the classroom or something like that. EVERY YEAR.

I get a list of what they are working on in math, LA, and social studies.

[Anonymous]

One of the top school districts in the country and we get automated comments, (1) 10 min conference and 28-30 kids in a classroom. It’s kind of appalling.