Class 4 daughter keeps a tally of every 'good' and 'very good' in her notebooks

apricot_moon_348624 Sept 2026

Found a page at the back of her maths notebook last night with two columns. 'Good' has 14 marks. 'Very good' has 9. There's a third column called 'Excellent' with exactly one mark and a small star next to it. She informs us that when 'Excellent' reaches five, the family is taking her out for dosa. Nobody in this house remembers agreeing to this. Apparently I agreed 'in July'. Now everyone is waiting for Excellent number two 🙂

2 comments

lagoon_hammock_744224 Sept 2026
Ha, proper accountant. Keep that page, you'll want it when she's older. Only thing, if the teacher changes and the new one writes 'good' for everything, be ready for a big emotional crisis 😄
- saffron_quilt_823224 Sept 2026
  Teachers do change how they mark. My son's class 6 teacher wrote only ticks the whole year. He took it personally for a month, then forgot about it.
mango_veranda_399626 Sept 2026
I check teachers' notebooks as part of my job, and 'Excellent' is the remark they get stingiest with as the year goes on. She may be waiting a while for number five. Pay up when it comes, though. A promise made 'in July' is still a promise.
- apricot_moon_348626 Sept 2026
  Number two came on Friday, in EVS. She made us clap at dinner. Three to go, dosa fund is ready 😄