2019-2020 Epilogue: The Mystery of the Missing Zeugnis

Tuesday 14^th July 2020, second working day after the end of the school year in Kanton Zürich.

When C left primary school, 7 years ago, he brought home the entire contents of his desk.

If you have read any of the previous posts, you will know that his Klasse 4-6 years were a little…….turbulent…… and although disappointed with how he was streamed into Sek, he was relieved to be leaving the teacher he had had for 3 years.

At that point, July 2013, we were in the middle of building work at home, with tonnes of stuff shoved in the loft, the cellar, the balcony and anywhere there was space for it. The house was completely upside down and we were living in chaos.

We eventually sorted out all the stuff and got the house back in ordnung, but we never found his Grade 6 report, and I spent years wondering what on earth happened to it, as there was plenty of other stuff re-found. But never his report card, which was disappointing, since as report cards go, it was a reasonably good one.

Today, 7 years later, it has arrived in the post, with a note from the Schulverwaltung:

“Ihr Zeugnis der Primarstufe wurde im Schulhaus gefunden. Auf diesem Grund senden wir Ihnen die Unterlagen zu und wünschen Ihnen eine schöne Sommerzeit».

(Your primary school report was found in the schoolhouse. For this reason, we send you the document and wish you a nice summer).

I’ve not stopped laughing all morning. Where else in the world would the local school authorities bother to do that?

All’s well that ends well.

For now, at least.