The report card is something that can tell us a lot about the performance of children within the school. We can see in which subjects need a little more support and which dominate to continue developing them. However, the grades or grades they get are not the only thing that defines them.
This is reminded of by an author of children's books, who He decided to share the results of an evaluation that he did as a child, showing that all children are much more than just a test.
Alexandra Penfold is an American literary agent and author of six children's books, one of which reached second place in bestsellers according to the New York Times. Recently he shared on his Twitter account a finding he made at his mother's house: the results of a school evaluation when he was 10 years old.
In the publication, she includes a photograph where you can see two papers. In one of them, it is the evaluation she made about herself at that age. In another, the result of a test in which its writing was evaluated.
This weekend I sorted through some papers my mom saved from my childhood. The top one is my 4th grade self evaluation. The bottom, my 4th grade state test score. Random House published my 6th book last week. #MoreThanATest pic.twitter.com/kzHFId258x
- Alexandra Penfold (@AgentPenfold) July 16, 2018
In the evaluation about herself, she had written the following: "To write. I love writing and I hope to become an author someday"Meanwhile, in the results of his exam, he said she was"minimally competent in writing", which represented that I understood little about the subject and would need a lot of support.
To give the final touch to these two images and demonstrate that the result of a test is never something that defines the potential of a child, she concludes her publication with: "Random House just published my sixth book last week".
On previous occasions we have talked about how the results of an evaluation and the report card do not have the last word about the ability of children to perform in one or another subject.
These types of publications are important, not only because remind us that notes are not the only thing that matters, but also serves as a call to parents, so that we do not take a bad grade severely or negatively, and instead, support our children even more, for they are more than just the result of a standardized evaluation.
