04/09/2026
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BEYOND GRADESš
When Jheezel Panga saw her six-year-old sonās first-quarter report card, she could not hide her disappointment.
Alh Frances was only in Grade 1, and most of his grades were in the 70s. Jheezel had been closely helping him with his lessons and activities, so she admitted that she expected better marks.
She scolded him that day and again the following day, until the young boy cried.
But as Jheezel reflected on her son, she began thinking about the things that never appeared on his report card.
Alh was the kind of child who would ask his mother to pack extra rice and two eggs because it was a classmateās birthday and he wanted to surprise them.
When another classmate had no baon, he shared ā±5 from the ā±20 his mother had given him so the child could buy soup.
And when one classmateās hand was hurting, Alh helped by writing in the childās notebook.
These were only some of the small things he regularly told his mother about.
Then one conversation changed the way Jheezel looked at his grades.
Alh told her that he sometimes cried while praying. He had been asking Jesus to make him smarter so his mother would no longer be angry with him.
He even described himself as āboboā because although he was already learning to read, his grades were still low.
For Jheezel, hearing those words was painful.
She realized that in wanting her son to do well in school, she had become harder on him than she intended. She apologized and told him that it was okay if his grades were not high, as long as he continued growing into a good person.
Alh simply answered that he would study harder.
Jheezel later shared that she had once measured her expectations against her own experience as a high-achieving student. But through her son, she came to understand something her grandfather had also taught her: grades should not be the only basis for judging what a child has learned or who that child is becoming.
Her Facebook post eventually resonated with hundreds of thousands of people, receiving around 300,000 shares.
A report card can tell parents how a child is performing in school. But as Alhās story showed, there are also qualities that no number printed on a card can fully measure.
Sometimes, kindness deserves to be noticed too.
