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 #2 (permalink) Sun Oct 19, 2008 23:08 pm "rank card" v. "repord card" |
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Hi Alex
The public schools around here use the term "report card". I've never heard the term "rank card" used to report a student's individual grades per subject. Students generally receive a report card several times during the school year, and a final report card at the end of each school year. In this area, they also receive "progress reports" between each report card.
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Oct 20, 2008 19:26 pm "rank card" v. "repord card" |
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Hi, Amy
Thank you !
PS: In point of fact, I took "rank card" from Stephen King (I'm reading "it" now, I guess you read it in the past  ).
Here is some of the examples:
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Ben had an idea that Bowers was going to stay back again. His name had not
been called when Mrs Douglas handed out the rank-cards, and that meant trouble. |
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| He stuffed his rank-card in his back pocket and started to whistle.. |
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| The News had been absolutely right about one thing: Eddie's rank-card was just bad enough to make him afraid to go home and face his stepdad. |
I myself heard peope use "report card" in many movies (and even Eminem himself used "bad report card" in one of his lyrics)
But somehow King prefers "rank card", and I guess, this is a regional difference. |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Oct 20, 2008 19:58 pm "rank card" v. "repord card" |
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| Lost_Soul wrote: |
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Hi Alex
Yes, that's entirely possible, and terminology can even vary between neighboring school districts. My direct teaching and school experience is limited to Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey (and Germany -- but that doesn't count here  ). In those places, as well as many others I'm familiar with, students receive "report cards". I did a bit of googling for "ranking period" (which I would call a "marking period"), and many/most of the results seemed to be in Maine.
I think Barb_D used to live in Maine, so maybe she will be able to tell you more about it.
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Oct 20, 2008 21:09 pm "rank card" v. "repord card" |
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I was a grown up when I lived in Maine, so I got performance evaluations, not report cards, thank goodness.
My daughter was in kindergarden, but I'm pretty sure she got report cards. (And King grew up only one town over from where we lived, so maybe it's an older Maine term and Maine has now been mainstreamed?) |
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| #6 (permalink) Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:48 am "rank card" v. "repord card" |
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I dunno, but every time I respond to one of Alex's posts about language that doesn't seem natural, it turns out to be King. 
Maybe once you get to be big shot writer, you have more sway to swat away the editors who dink with your writing, and more stuff slips through...
I guess I should read more of his stuff, and see what else I find sounds odd to me. Never been a big King fan for some reason, but then I'm not much of a horror reader either.
Yeah, I know he writes other genre's, but that's what he's known for, and so I never really got into him.
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