<p>After reading your comments I spoke to my son.</p>
<p>It turns out the teacher actually told him that she was going to focus her recommendation on his leadership abilities. (He is a class officer and next year will be a school officer, and also will be captain of the football team next year. He also has one other big thing that I don’t want to get into detail here about because it’s really specific, but it’s something recognized at a large level.)</p>
<p>He feels (and I have to say I do feel this way too, having known her for three years as his teacher) that she is above board and he also feels will write a solid and positive recommendation, and that her comments on the report card are for me and not for a college.</p>
<p>I guess this will be one of the many decisions he needs to make based on information he has. He has always been very good with people and a good judge of character, so I’m thinking that he knows about this better than I do. (And I’m also thinking that any teacher that knows him well is going to think he doesn’t always put forth a consistent effort…although they may disagree on the reasons for this. So this is a risk with any teacher he asks and maybe what NSM said is right about her taking more time to put a comment like that on the card because she is more interested in him.)</p>
<p>P.S. BTW, he asked for his recs last month before we recieved this last report card.</p>