Senior citizens: Did the schools of your era mailed your report card?

Question

I was educated in the public school system of San Francisco, California from 1954 to 1967.

Up to 1966, each semester's report card was given to the student to take home to show his/her parents. The parents signed the report card to acknowledge having reviewed it.

Starting in 1967, my school mailed the students' report cards, which was a computer-generated slip of paper that was addressed "To the parents of (student name)." The computer-generated report card did not require the parents' signature to acknowledged their review.

Answer 1

Nope. They handed them out to the student and we had to go home and present it to our parents. At least one parent had to sign the thing and send it back with us by the next day. If you didn't bring your report card back, you couldn't come to school and the school would call in your parent(s), so there was no getting around the report card dilemma. When we were little, maybe first grade?, the teachers would pin the report card to the back of our shirts so we couldn't easily remove them (and of course it never crossed any of our repressed minds to have a friend unpin the thing) or claim we lost them. Parents also knew when reports cards came out and were waiting to see them, no avoiding that. I always got checks--"has a good mind but won't use it" or "will not answer even when called on."

Answer 2

Pretty much the same as you, except I think our high school report cards (10th thru 12th grades) were more computerized and were mailed. I didn't worry too much about it because I was always a good student, if not especially clever. I had only one report card, in the 7th grade, that had an "E" on it. It was because I didn't do some memory work of some kind in a current events class. It was really no reflection on how well I was learning in the class. That teacher simply had a rule, no memory work turned in = bad grade. But he also believed that not turning in this memory work was also a symptom of bad citizenship, so I got a 5 in citizenship, which was the worst you could get. If I was worried at all about my mom seeing that "E", it was alleviated at once when my mom saw the 5. She said "god, that guy must be an azzhole".

Answer 3

I brought home my report card. While I remember parents signing doctor's excuses, I don't remember the parents having to sign the report card. I graduated in 1962 so nothing was mailed to my parents.

Answer 4

Yes, I recall watching the mail box and retrieving D/F slips which was a warning your kid was doing poorly in class. I would sign them because my dad would ground me and this just meant I couldn't leave the house and still wouldn't study. I was untreated for ADD. I also signed report cards but there were four students in the home so this made it more difficult because unless they were in on it, my folks would realize something was up.

Answer 5

Both, Yes and No.

I was educated in Yorkshire UK during the early part of my childhood,

we were trusted by our schools to deliver our annual report card by

hand to our parents. Any feedback came in the form of PTA meetings

and letters to parents from Headteachers.

Whilst I was no straight A student, the worst that I remember was the

odd remark such as " Malcolm could apply himself more to this subject".

Later at my boarding school, reports were sent by post, due to the fact

that I was at a boarding school in the UK for the sons of British armed

forces, and parents were often abroad in such bases as BAOR Germany,

Cyprus or Hongkong.

Answer 6

We took ours home so we could be punished. Mom usually just told us to go to our rooms until our father got home then we didn't get punished except the time waiting. My senior year mom said if we got D or F we were getting grounded so when we got home she said we couldn't go anywhere but school until the next report card. But she got a phone call from a friend and so within an hour she took us to a football game so we didn't get grounded after that. She actually punished my older brother the year before because she kept getting told if he didn't pay history he wouldn't graduate so she restricted him, he got a B so she let him off until they called he wasn't going to graduate again so she thought it would work the next year on me and my little brother.

Answer 7

No, they only started mailing our reports when educators realized that what with runaway inflation keeping parents too preoccupied with fighting tooth and nail to keep the family's economic head above the water and the growing popularity of, "Lazzez faire" child rearing far too many kids could get away with signing their own cards.

Answer 8

I graduated high school in 64, and never had a report card mailed or delivered in any manner other than by handing it to me.

Answer 9

No, I went to school from 1953 to 1966 and they gave us the report cards, we took it home, the parents signed it and we had to take it back, unless there was a note for the parent to see the teacher and then the parent bought it back at that meeting.

Answer 10

I graduated in 1964 from a small Catholic school. Report cards were handed out and we took them home. One of my parents had to sign it.

Answer 11

Im a junior and my report card gets mailed

Answer 12

They gave them to the students and we had to take them home and be signed by a parent. I never had a bad report card.

Answer 13

No. I went to 9 schools in two states and three cities between 1933 and Jan. 1946 and had to take my card home and have mother sign it always

Answer 14

We still, to this day, have the reports cards sent home and the parents sign and return.

Answer 15

I graduated in 2005 and my report cards were mailed. They did start emailing them sometime after though because my baby brother had all his emailed.

Answer 16

No, we received our report cards in school, and had to take them home, get them signed and then bring them back to school.

Answer 17

No they didn't "mailed' them. In my era, 1939 to 1949, there were no computers and we took them home to be signed by one of our parents.

Answer 18

No, they gave it to us, then the parents had to sign it and give it back. (that's the way they did it in my era).

Answer 19

No, they handed them out to us at school.

Answer 20

No. I was always proud to hand it to my parents.

I was a good and smart student.

Answer 21

Not in Detroit ,MI

Answer 22

no; we took them home by hand