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Why don't we ban school reports...

'my schooldays were emphatically NOT the best years of my life.'

Clare Cooper
Aug 11, 2026
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When clearing my parents’ house prior to selling, I discovered my old school reports. On reading them, I became very upset. There are a surprising number of negatives, handily forgotten in the intervening years, and in some ways, I feel I haven’t really progressed very far. Then I put them to one side, pulled myself together, and dared to look at them a…

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