Teachers and others involved in the educational hierarchy often feel that they must try to say something favorable about their students, even though the subject's prospects may be fairly bleak.
So it happened that a certain academic counselor, required to write a reference for a student in connection with a summer job, wrote,
"Conduct generally good."
This recipient of the reference called to ask for more specifics.
"What do you mean, 'Generally?'" said he.
"Well," replied the counselor, in this case 'Generally' means 'Not particularly' ..."
----------------A Final Thought ...
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
- Mark Twain (1835–1910), US author