Naki

TODAY is Friday the
13th (again) and the
last school day before
spring break.

OF much lesser impor:
tance (to a couple of my chil-
dren anyway), today is school
report card day.

Miy husband and f used to
love it when my kids brought
their report cards home

Ir exciting to
they were progressing in
school, and to have a real
measure of their academic
pertorma

Oh how v
those “A's” and “B's”
first few years.

Suffice it to say. times
have changed.

My oldest son is fairly
casual about his report card.

He gets pretty good
marks with a minimum of
work, but he says I am not to
worry about his lack of
effort.

He's apparently going to
make his big push for good

in Grades 11 and 12,

rejoiced over
in the

“Grade 10 is my last year
to relax,” he says, and judg-
ing from the amount of sleep
he gets, he is definitely
relaxed.

My daughter, on the other
hand, is a very conscientious
student.

She manages her time
well, never misses an assign-
ment and is attentive in class.

She can’t wait for her
report card to come home
because she knows it is going

eat.
youngest son is a dif-
ferent story altogethe

Fron, the time he first
started getting letter grades
in school it was apparent te
his father and me chat his

MIiaibe x

Close to
home

interests lay elsewhere.

He is a bright kid: he just
doesn’t shine in school.

While he may be no acad-
emic, the kid is a born sales-
man.

I believe he was in Grade
+ when he single-handedly
took up the torch to retur-
bish the tarnished imaue of
the much maligned “C.” and
he has been ati advo-
cate tor all marks fess than a

.

Every time he gets a new
report card we have the same
conversation: “Remember

good”
That means
Cis pretty good.”
“In my day, a C-plus was
only average” | remark
him, unconvinced.

Smart lad. he quickly
refers me te the legend at the
bottom of the report card,
where in fact, a C-phus is

td as good.

" Psav to hin. “3
leaves a fot of room for
improvement.”

“Why, ves it does, Mother.
And I just know F n going to
improve next term,” he
believing himself completely.
“You should know thar I did
better than a for of the other
guys in my class. I’m consid-
ered one of the smart kids.”

“By whom?” [ ask hope-
fully, but T get no answer
because he is already out the

door and on to more impor:
tant things like his golf game.
As the
irs became clear to me that
for this particular kid. aC
plus isa good mark.
Tmean. ids all relative

d relative to his other
marks, the ©: plus looks pret-
tv good.

Besides. in the last vear or
so he’s been pushing the idea
that boys start to do well in
school ara much later are
than girls (1 think he got that
idea trom his big brother), so
he's not rushing anything.

“Don't worry, Phave a
whole lifetime of learning
ahead of me he has been
Known to cheertally sav to his
father and me around report
card time.

And, despite getting aver-

grades in school, the kid
is a Voracious reader. P credit
his Grade 6 teacher who List
year convinced him to jon
the reading program at
schooi

Granted, Howard Stern’s
book Private Parts may not
have been exactly what she
had in mind, but he
embraced it and the reading
program with unbridled
enthusiasm.

hy advance of this report:
ing session. the boy has tried
to refocus my interest in the
results of the past term to
another clement of his report
card: the work habits mark.

His work habits marks
typically range trom
(unsatisfactory), ta S (satis:
factorys with the occasional
G (Good), and R for “rare” in
Our case.

Apparentiy there is anoth-
er work habits mark: E for

cellent. but since | have
never seen one FT wouldn't

Wrong name for NV arena

Dear Editor:

You can't be serious about naming the

arena after Paul Kariya (News
8).
He clearly let down hi

for two months when five million ay

wasn't good enough!

Not too professional if vou ask me, let alone
the thousands from Southern California that

feel the same way.

What has he done for the NHL anyway?

that he co:
and is play

All T know is
down any interview,
himself only.

On out midweek

s Anaheim teammates

He is nota nvo-way piayer and the fact that

analvsi sMarch ous.

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anyway?

till parr
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Just because I s
How many hundred-point seasons has he had,

obvi-

ider Kariva?
is a great skater —

Pd sooner name it after Teemu Selanne, like
fans would,

or even after Breet
Canadian, isn't he?
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on what bas

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Friday, March 13, 1998 — North Shore News — 7

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Ci tell vou what.
My voungest son has done

such an excellent job of seli-
ing me on the value of aver-

rades and the unimpor-
lo anyway.

haven't seen te final report

CS

card tor last year. (it was
issued in June of 1997.1

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