
How to Read Your Child's Report Card Without Panicking
A report card arrives with a number on it, and within about ten seconds most parents have decided how they feel about the term. The number is the fastest thing to read and usually the least useful thing to react to. A report card is a compressed summary of months of work, produced by a school, according to a particular board’s rules, at a particular moment. Read carefully, it answers better questions than “is this good or bad”. Read carelessly, it turns one term’s assessment into a family argument. ...








