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Just looked through my primary school report cards sent over by my mother, and I didn't even remember this, but they actually marked on the cards whether you were underweight, overweight or of an "acceptable weight". Aside from the fact that we were sitting multiple exams per year from age 7 onwards back then, it sounds so ridiculous that they had our weight on there. Did they do that in Australian primary schools back in the 90s?
e: I have chalked up this weight business to certain countries being way too numbers oriented about everything even with young children
can confirm, no weight ever noted on report cards
Not weight no. They'd record your 'beep' test results and the PE teacher would talk to parents about it along with general fitness / performance at sport.
Same with the beep test results.
We had a whole ass fitness test every year with 5 stations testing different types of fitness and a 1.6 km (later 2.4 km) run
Never had it commented on in QLD.
Definitely not
NSW primary schools did give students a few annual health checks in the ’80s and ’90s. There were hearing checks, visual acuity checks, colourblindness checks, and a few other things. I think they did weigh students, but don’t quote me on it as I could be mistaken. However, it didn’t appear on report cards. I think it was only ever used for referring a student to a medical specialist, or for welfare checks in extreme cases.
I think like my PE teachers would always remark that I didn't do sports, that I'd need more encouragement and stuff (shocker it's because I had undiagnosed ADHD, I actually like doing active stuff it's just never had the motivation to do it)
But I don't remember weight at all. They probably mentioned it and was like saying that I'm fat but in "nicer" ways. But I don't recall ever having my weight listed.
I don’t remember weight being one of the criteria on my report cards ever from memory.
I definitively know there was a comments sections and another for grading maybe.