Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Sentence Starters To Avoid When Writing School Reports

(The following is written as humour and in no way reflects the author's personal view of education or children)

OK - it's no secret I am a Educator ('Teacher' is so last century!)

If you teach in the southern hemisphere, we are about to finish our first of two semesters which also means writing reports.

I wrote the following to provide some light relief to my fellow teachers in my faculty so I thought I'd share them with you.


Sentence Starters to avoid when writing school reports
  1. Your child is the reason I drink. . .
  2. Military school would be . . .
  3. Like a rat caught in a trap . . .
  4. I would not allow this student to breed . . .
  5. Apart from working with glue, . . .
  6. Your child's self-serving personality . . .
  7. According to the prophecy . . . . 
  8. My migraines have increased this year . . .
  9. I hear there's a parenting class at  . . . 
  10. I wouldn’t say he’s “one neuron short of a synapse” but . . .
  11. Against my doctor’s advice . . .
  12. A good beating could solve . . . .




 





(Not really a filofax post, but if it counts, I DO use an A5 Lyndhurst as my teacher planner.)
 

2 comments:

  1. It is nice to know that children are the same no matter what continent they may be on....love the list!

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  2. Children will be children and parents will be parents across the globe

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