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H is for the hours spent at your desk with no TV,
a is for the only thing you'll do on a Sunday eve,
M is for the mark that you hope to achieve,
E is for the excellent grade that you to receive,
W is for the words that are required in the essay,
a is for the overtime put in beyond the school day,
R is for the report card that you show Mom without delay, K is for the kind words that she'll throw your way!
Sometimes in spite of hard work or, in other cases, little or no work, the bad report card falls into your hands. Perhaps you did not see the writing on the wall and such a report is a shock. What becomes worse is that you must now take it home to be signed by Mom or Dad . The worst is yet to come! Surely there must be a guide book written somewhere entitled 'How To Bring Home a Bad Report'. The 'Crowsnest' had no such manual and the public library did not have it in its' circulation. However, many CCI students thought that they recalled coming across a magazine article on this topic and were able to recall many of the pieces of advice. Jason Bouwkamp and Dan Longmire remembered reading that you should prepare your parents by being really nice to them and then you carefully present it. Robin Symes and Heather McMaster preferred the more subtle tech- nique. "Just stick it in your pants pocket. When your parents ask for it, put it on the table and quickly announce that you are going out!" Ryan metheral tries to apply reverse psychology - " Show them the good ones first and then the bad one last!" Angelina McFarlane suggests the 'Open' approach. " Blame it on the class. Tell them that you hate the class and that is why you are not doing well!" Tanya Salter looks to the 'Game Show' system. "Let them guess. I don't men- tion it!" The general concsensus of all was that life is so much nicer if you never have to face the bad report!
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