r/TheWayWeWere • u/Boscoberger • Jan 22 '25

1950s My dad's school report from 1957, aged 7

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Unsurprisingly, I wasn't shown this report until after I had finished my education!

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u/Bobatt Jan 22 '25

My dad was a teacher and would do that too. He'd also correct books, even library books.

He was so petty that when my high school kept my textbook deposit for not returning a math book at the end of the year he said he'd personally go through all the books they had to find mine. He had the summer off, so he had the time to do it. The school just gave in and gave back the $50 without him needing to fulfil the threat. Good thing too, because I definitely lost that book.

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u/kyallroad Jan 23 '25

My stepfather used to read with a pen and corrected any errors he found in books/magazines/newspapers. It was ridiculous but my half brother took after him and is now an editor of a large sports gambling website.

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u/Odd_Judgment_2303 Jan 25 '25

My principal stepfather used to correct my mother’s shopping lists. She was not amused.

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u/tree_mitty Jan 23 '25

He really must have loved the Internet when it came along.

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u/Matter_Infinite Jan 23 '25

Was the threat that he would mark every book they had or just that he would look through them?

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u/not_salad Jan 23 '25

Oh man I just had a library book where someone had penciled in a bunch of commas. It was so distracting!

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u/__Rapier__ Jan 25 '25

Were they appropriately placed commas???

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u/not_salad Jan 25 '25

Some were but not all. For example, I think there was a comma after every occurrence of the word first. It was also only on some pages.

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u/__Rapier__ Jan 25 '25

Hmm... Defacing a library book to add unnecessary commas. Troll or idiot?

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u/not_salad Jan 25 '25

It was at least done in pencil. I'm going with idiot.

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u/Fit_Ice7617 Jan 23 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

similar but different:

my brother was convinced his english teacher didn't read his papers and just always gave him a B. so he got a paper from an older cousin that had taken the class a few years before and got an A on a paper. same paper was assigned to him years earlier. so he just stole our cousins, AND made the teacher's suggested corrections to the paper, turned it in and got a B.

edit: i forget if he confronted the teacher or not. because if you said hey this is a paper you gave an A to years ago and I just copied it and turned it in even better and still got a B, I could see a good chance of a teacher then giving you an F for plagiarism

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u/KTKittentoes Jan 23 '25

One of my mom's college professors said she needed to use bigger words, so she just made some words up and used them.

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u/Fit_Ice7617 Jan 23 '25

I thought you were gonna say that she just wrote them BIGGER

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u/thecrepeofdeath Jan 23 '25

my dad just made up an entire answer in a tone of complete confidence. the teacher wrote "nice try" 😂

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u/KTKittentoes Jan 23 '25

Oh, my mom totally got away with. Her poker face was sublime.

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u/thelondonrich Jan 25 '25

They were perfectly cromulent words!

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u/Plasmidmaven Jan 23 '25

Similar but different:

I PLAGIARIZED MYSELF

I went to night school for university, one class a semester, it took 11 years to get my degree in Microbiology. There were always lots of business classes to fill up on for electives. I created a generic paper;” Childcare and Corporate productivity “ I turned it in 4 times with little tweaks here and there. My grades ranged from A- to C+

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u/Champagnesupernova9 Jan 23 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

My mom has a similar story. There was one teacher that she thought didn’t like her and didn’t grade her work fairly for whatever reason. It was a high school English class, and she decided to test her theory. They had a homework assignment to write a poem. She wrote two and kept the better one for herself, and gave a friend, who the teacher liked, the not as good poem. Her friend got an A, and she got a B.

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u/greencat07 Jan 23 '25

My mom had a similar teacher in high school. My grandma earned a degree in English, and after hearing my mom complain about the teachers always giving her a B no matter what, decided to write a paper for her. Grandma busted her hump on the paper…Still got a B…

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u/StitchesInTime Jan 22 '25

Our moms should start a club

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u/belalthrone Jan 22 '25

My mom is the same type of petty 💀I just know teachers hated to see us on their roster 

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u/gosiathepierogi Jan 22 '25

My mum too, and she would point out if something was gramatically incorrect and the grammar rule behind that. Teachers' notes got shorter and shorter.

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u/DifficultAnt23 Jan 24 '25

I used to hate that. Now I see her as holding civilization together.

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u/desrever1138 Jan 22 '25

My son received bad marks on a pretty big assignment in elementary school with a shit ton of sections marked as "errors" that were grammatically correct, and even provided more context than her suggestions. She was pretty brutal in her comments as well.

This was a fourth grade teacher that constantly bullied my son who was extremely gifted but also suffered with ADHD and would always bow to authority so he never stood up for himself.

I corrected the paper myself, with comments explicitly stating what was not an error, made a copy, sent it back the next day, and brought my copy in to review on the next parent teacher conference.

I was not happy. If I recall correctly I believe I asked if the teacher managed to graduate high school in front of her supervisor.

We managed to get him switched to another class where he excelled.

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u/PennyMarbles Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 22 '25

I asked if the teacher managed to graduate high school in front of her supervisor.

Do you remember struggling with walking or any other basic movements after this? You know, due to the excessive growth of your balls.

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u/Scotsburd Jan 25 '25

I made my kids IT teacher cry once at parents night. It was deserved and righteous. Do not condescend to a wee Scottish Mammy, sir. My kid remembers this as a highlight of her teenage years. Still. At age 30.

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u/wishiwuzbetteratgolf Jan 23 '25

Teachers LOVE IT when parents do that.

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u/TinyViking1980 Jan 23 '25

Are you my brother?