School reports can seem more like an assessment rather than the development of a relationship, and they don't really allow parents to ask why. They also don't allow for parents to look at teacher blind spots or for teachers to look at parent blind spots, and by that I mean if a child is being unusually quiet in class, there may be reasons that the parents can discuss with the teacher. Or if a child is playing up or if a child is doing really, really well, there will be lots of context around that that really needs to be discussed, and in Pacific culture that's called talanoa. It's a really, really important concept. It's about relationship. It's about the concept of many people being involved in a child's life, and those relationships are the start of the process, not simply a cold, hard school report with something written on it that can't really be interrogated or discussed.