The Dontmindme.com Report Card Translation Guide

Unless you were raised by illiterate wolves, odds are you've had some sort of schooling. Maybe you still go to school. In any case, with school comes report cards, unless of course you went to some sort of permissive lackadaisical hippie schools that considered testing an oppressive tool of The Man. For the rest of us who went to actual schools, several times per year report cards were sent home, bringing either gloom and despair or praise and reward, depending on the numbers (or letters) inside.

Of course letter and number grades are very easy to interpret, but what about the always present teacher comments? What do those actually mean? If you've been wondering that (or if you're a teacher in need of a little help with preparing accurate — but still politically correct — feedback) this guide might help. Report card speak is in the left hand column, with real English translation on the right.