People of a certain age like me remember them with chagrin. Mine were most likely discarded but somehow, Glen's survived.
I was cleaning out a desk drawer yesterday and found several from his celebrated years at East Wayne elementary. That school had eight grades in his day. Several years ago it was rebuilt in the same location. Now named Jefferson, it has six grades and a kindergarten, plus a pre-k. There are multiples of several grades. Some of the luckier kids have my lovely daughter-in-law for their teacher.
Anyway, when Glen attended first through eighth grade graduation, the report cards were somewhat different. There were no kindergartens in the school system then. His first grade card had 1938-39 penciled in. He was 5, so not six until November, and pretty small for his age, they still took him.
The first declaration to parents
was : On or before the first Wednesday of each school month this report will be filled out and sent to you. The eighth grade one
stated the same including..if this student is failing you should try to find the cause and co-operate in correcting the difficulty. Your signature indicates that you have examined this report. It does not
necessarily mean that you approve. Glen did ok in elementary but he excelled in High School and finished second in his class ..after the guy who became one of the first presidents of Grace College.
