When I took a break from my hectic daily routine that beats workout on treadmill or such things, I read an amusing message by a friend in Facebook.
Now that exam is over and exam papers are returned – it is now time for parents to start comparing their children’s marks.
For this particular friend, not enough with being asked in school, some parents even called her at home – and worse, called her child on the phone to ask for her marks!
Talk about being over-competitive!
While hers was an extreme case, another friend in another school was told that they could not bring home their kids’ exam papers. This was supposedly to prevent students or their parents from changing their answers on a marked paper and request for re-marking – they must have had cases of over-competitive/protective parents before!
The best are schools which return their exam papers with ONLY grades, no marks.
So over-competitive parents have to be satisfied with a ohh-your-kid-got-an-A1-too kind of comparison sessions – while mentally speculating if it was an A1 with 99 or 98 or 97 or 95 marks!
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