HI - I'd say the 'clinicalness' of the reports comes from the standards that they measure your child against. In Victoria there is a list of progression points that a childs learning is checked against to determine what standard they are at. For example, for preps at the middle of the year, to get a C, they need to be achieving at 0.5 and then for some subject areas there is a lit of criteria to meet that.

From my experience with teachers the don't like to use the comment banks, but I'm sure there are some that do. They can make up their own comments and add them and make their own bank. There are a few comments on Caitlin's report that sound a bit formal but there are also a lot that are really specific to her and where she is at.

Feedback is always good, but they might not be able to do much about some of it.

Barb.