Mid Year Results
Posted on May 28, 2009
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As usual I greeted Hang at the door when he came home from school. I could tell from the instant if my boy had a good or a bad day in school as it would be written all over his face.
He got his mid-year results.
2nd in Class.
Devastated was an understatement to describe how he felt! Read his entry in his blog. He tried to hide his tears. I hugged and bathed him. Then we brought him for dinner and ice cream to cheer him up.
When I checked his result slip, I noticed a discrepancy. I was under the impression that he had a perfect score for CA1 English but it was recorded as only 98%. So I contacted his teacher immediately. The teacher told me that there was one test on Adjective that Hang scored only 8/10. However, I could not find the worksheet in the pile of test papers returned.
I am certain that the test worksheet was not returned to us. Yet I turned the house upside down in search for that missing piece. I needed to be sure as Hang was only 1% shy of getting the first position.
At the end of the day, I was still not sure if he did lost 2 marks for the test. But it does not matter. Because the one thing I was sure was we had taught Hang some very valuable lessons in life. One, he could always count on his family to nurse his wounds and we will always be there for him. Two, we helped him picked himself up after a fall. This might be the first failure he faced in his life and we were glad we were there to comfort him and seize that teachable moment of life’s lessons.
And that matters more than the 1% or the first position.
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His school reveals the ranking in class? I’ve never ever known the “ranking” of any of my kids. Well, they’ve never ever gotten 1st 3 places in class or level for the year, so of course we don’t know since they don’t collect any prizes. *haha*.
Greeting from M’sia! Got to know your blog from “Young Parents”.
I reckon it’s more important that Hang encounters failure and learns to cope with it! 2nd in class doesn’t matter for him anymore, since he has a very supportive family that helped him to gain back his 100% self esteem!