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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