Gold!!

These awards are well sought after. They are for motivation and effort rather than good marks. The list went up of the recipients yesterday morning and Jakes name was no where to be seen. He was livid. So Jake is not one to just accept things and he marched straight into the deans office and insisted there had to have been a mistake. His effort marks were examined and the computer had spat out a 58% score for him. So Jake demanded they pull his last school report and look at it. He even rang me and asked me to quickly email him a copy.

It turns out that at the beginning of the year he had dropped one subject and picked up another. The computer had not coped with that very well and had scored him 0% on both subjects. So once that was fixed his effort mark shot up to 95.3% which gave him top marks and a gold motivation award.

Most kids would have shrugged there shoulders and let it go but not our Jake.