I recently attended my 6 year old daughter’s open house in school. As a student I used to dread the open houses, even though it was a practice that I had to go through only during the last 2 years of my schooling. I have always been of the opinion that the trinity of Parent, Pupil and Teacher should never find themselves within the confines of the 4 four walls of a class room neither by choice nor chance. It invariably spells doom for the pupil.
Well this time it was a reversal of roles and I was ‘virtually’ shocked when the class teacher gave me a user name and a password and asked me to check out my daughter’s report card online.
An online report card…I thought to myself… The walk home the day I received my report card was a long one, thinking of ways to explain to my dad why I had lost those couple of marks in Maths, Science or Geography… The fear of presenting my report card to my dad and getting his all elusive signature on the dotted line was more than a stimulant to help me perform better in those days. Those were the days when we performed / excelled in our studies out of sheer fear and not out of promises or incentives that are doled out to the kids these days, A Barbie if you get a A+ in KG 1 or a play station if you do well in class 3 were never around in those days… Believe me the fear tactic worked better than the incentives.
I just realised the world has changed in more than one way I know, when I see my 6 old year watching Cartoon Network on TV and biting into a bar of Mars and makes a ‘by the way’ remark asking me to check out her report card on the web.
I just hope and pray that the time when my daughter sends me a user name and password to login to find out where she is, doesn’t confront me in the years to come.
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Kochu
How abt the old threat from the principal " Go and tell your father to see me tomorrow, else dont come to school".
It could well become, "Tell your dad to meet at 9.00 PM tonite on yahoo chat or skype.. My user id is ..__.."
Geoji,
Do they Have a section called "Remarks" in school calendars these days. I remember while at Bede's getting my Dad's signature against a teachers remark was the most dreaded thing and I have skipped school a copule of times when I could not get my dad's signature on the calendar or on Report Cards....Zamana Badalgaya...
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