I love this. I think he feels good about it. I've had a 2nd grader that refused to practice his presentation and it was VERY rough. Sounds very different than what your DS did. DS still got told he "did a good job". I think there is a lot of variation in ability and effort in the younger grades. So long as the metrics for the assignment were met and there was some growth, I'm sure the teacher feels that it was fine. And I'm sure that it was fine!
Add me to the crew that think it was a positive email! Although my DDs teachers communicate regularly with parents as a whole, it is rare that they send an email directly to me alone related to a specific project or activity. I don't think that's common -- so I would take the fact that she sent an email at all (and the fact the words are positive) to mean your DS did a GREAT job! My best guess is that she really wanted to communicate the fact your DS did well, but has limited time and zero time to wordsmith or quickly throw more than a few words down, so she just wrote something quickly and sent it off. I would treat this much less like performance review wording and more like if you got a random and unexpected email from someone letting you know that one of your staff member had done something great lately and they wanted to take a second to recognize it.
Lizi
Looks like a standard comment she’s sending to each student. I would leave it alone.
Love that your DS responded to her. I'm impressed she sent out an email to the parents with feedback on an individual assignment. I'd read it as positive feedback, especially when you consider how many students she has x assignments.
Mom to Two Wild and Crazy Boys and One Sweet Baby Girl
I was going to actually recommend that you respond back in a similar way that your DS just did!!! I think the teacher took the time out of her day to send the email because she thought he did a great job, and I would've responded "That's great to hear, thank you for letting me know! I will share this with DS. He will be thrilled since he worked so hard all weekend!"
I wouldn't say anything since that's probably her communication style. I don't like it though since she could have easily included a smiley face and then you wouldn't be left to assume anything.
The thing that's a bit funny to me here is that I work for a large corporation and I very rarely send or receive an email that doesn't have a smiley face in it. I honestly get stressed out if there's not a smiley face in an email from my leader, which is probably ridiculous, but whatever.
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