I found some of my own report cards when I was going through my mom's things four years ago, too-- the one report card comment that stuck with me was;
{Name} speaks well-- and often.
Most of the commentary was similarly euphemistic. I think that many of my teachers knew my mom professionally, so they knew that there was no need to be more specific about the sorts of...
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challenges some of these characteristics posed in a classroom setting.
I believe that my second grade teacher also noted that if my 'tenacity' were applied 'more productively' that he had no idea what I might be capable of. LOL. I had a thing about not doing work I didn't feel like doing, too. It was after 2nd grade that my mom and the school evidently went toward placing me in split classrooms, so that I could work at a higher level and still be placed with agemates. The mulish behavior didn't go away, of coursem, and neither did the talking.
