Comments on: Interpreting Your Kids’ Report Cards

By: Stop! What’s Your Sign? | Leanne Shirtliffe ~ Ironic Mom

Stop! What’s Your Sign? | Leanne Shirtliffe ~ Ironic Mom — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:00:47 +0000

[...] an apple or a bagel. This time, I dozed. I’d spent the past week getting up at 4 a.m. to write report card comments. Sleep had [...]

By: Report Card Funnies : Go Beyond Survival

Report Card Funnies : Go Beyond Survival — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:39:00 +0000

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By: Vicki

Vicki — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:43:16 +0000

My grade 3 teacher wrote, “Vicki has terrible handwriting for a girl.” She clearly did not take the PD session on effective use of Euphemism – or gender stereotyping. Love your writing. Feel like I am getting to know V&W even though you are on the other side of the world.

By: Married To a Scorpio Support Day: Astrology & Chocolate for Kids « Ironic Mom

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:11:06 +0000

[...] an apple or a bagel. This time, I dozed. I’d spent the past week getting up at 4 a.m. to write report card comments. Sleep had [...]

By: ironicmom

ironicmom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:14:49 +0000

Amber: Your teacher actually wrote “verbal diarrhea”? Hilarious. Quite an image for a third grader, especially if you hadn’t heard the term before. I guess report cards have gone PC…

By: Amber's Crazy Bloggin' Canuck

Amber's Crazy Bloggin' Canuck — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:05:13 +0000

My best report card ever: when my third grade teacher wrote that I had “verbal diarrhea.”

By: Kasia

Kasia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:57:19 +0000

Leanne,
you are giving away our secrets! Now everybody will know what those innocent-looking sentences really mean…
I love reading your writing. Please ensure that something is entered every day so that reading your blog can become part of my evening routine, will ya? Way better than reading work e-mail or… writing/proofing report cards…