How important are written comments in ES report cards?

[Anonymous]

Do the next years teachers even get to read the report card comments on incoming students?

[Anonymous]

The comments are for the parents, not for next year's teacher.

[Anonymous]

In FCPS, they just check which pre-written comments they want to include. So meaningless, really.

[Anonymous]

Teachers have told me adding comments is not so user friendly so there are a lot of canned comments. Meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Significant, I think. But that's because the comment referred to my kid as highly intelligent.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely hate the "pre-canned" comments. DD had several on hers but they were all gobble gook Ed speak and really conveyed nothing.

[Anonymous]

Meaningless. The comments in fcps at least are canned - from a giant book of comments. GIANT. My son's teacher made a mistake this year and accidentally wrote the same comment three times. I don't think next year's teachers look at the report card at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meaningless. The comments in fcps at least are canned - from a giant book of comments. GIANT. My son's teacher made a mistake this year and accidentally wrote the same comment three times. I don't think next year's teachers look at the report card at all.

Was it the "Have a nice summer" comment? If so that was a glitch in the system.

At some point we may refer back to a Progress Report here and there, but for the most part we do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Significant, I think. But that's because the comment referred to my kid as highly intelligent.