Romney report card

[snopes]

Comment: This photograph of Mitt Romney's 9th grade High School Transcripts look so
fake, but mediaite.com is presenting as if it's real. And the followers
comment as if it's real. I really think it's fake. The comments from the
teachers are too long and too specific. His full name isn't listed (and in
school transcripts it would be his full name). The comments are
"originality and imaginative" - not typical _biology_ comments -- and
"...some trouble with Genetics" indicate that religion was interfering with
the scientific method. The web link is:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/mitt-...card-released/

I am not familiar with mediaite.com's website, so perhaps this is real. So,
is it fake?

[Stan The Man]

Wouldn't a report card use his full name, not his middle name?

[Lainie]

Yes. That's one of the questions the OP raises. ETA: OTOH, if he was using Mitt on a daily basis, as he has as an adult, I could see the teacher using that instead of his full name on a handwritten report card.

[Stan The Man]

That's what I get for not reading the whole thing.

[snopes]

I like the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton was Mitt Romney's French teacher.

[Avril]

The Mail says the report card originated with the Boston Globe. Story here.

[Sister Ray]

Originally Posted by Stan The Man

Wouldn't a report card use his full name, not his middle name?

Not always. My name was given on school documents as "K, Angharad (Annie)" from first to twelfth grade and sometimes the "Angharad" part was chopped off.

quick edit: That report card doesn't look that bad to me, even if it is real.

Sister "I was only thankful for that when college didn't do it and I got so many wrong pronunciations" Ray

[Roadsterboy]

Originally Posted by Stan The Man

Wouldn't a report card use his full name, not his middle name?

As another data point, my parents and family have always called me by my middle name, and that's how I was registered all the way through high school. Officially registered, mind you, so that when I was filling out college applications (using my first name, as it is on all my official documents like my drivers license, social security card, and long, short, medium, and handy wallet size birth certificates), they had no record of me and no transcripts got sent out.

I'm still baffled as to how this actually happened. I went to school in the same district from kindergarten through high school-nobody checked this out when I was being registered? Ever?

[Singing in the Drizzle]

Didn't your mother tell you that you need straight A's starting as early as kindergarten if you wanted to be president of the United States. I know my mother did.

[TrishDaDish]

That explains why my father bribed my brother and I with a dollar for each A we got.