Here’s the document that shaped Franco’s psyche: his Form II mid-year report from 1987
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January 7, 2012 at 1:01pm
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Facebook is hillarious this morning!
If I were Franco Debono I would lock myself up “fil-woxxrum tal-mama”, grow a beard, and when the waters calm down, escape in the middle of the night to go and live with the Trobriands.
It’s supposed to be oligarchy free.
Fil-Maths kien naqra batut.
My thoughts too…. it probably reflects the inability to perform basic calculations, i.e 35-1=34= Franco alone in the wilderness
Well… resolution quality not the best… but I read three ‘100s’ – that’s quite a report !
How old is this guy?
Not 12.
38, and still living with mummy, with a girlfriend of around 1o years’ standing, waiting literally in the wings and dropped off at her own home every evening.
I never missed full marks in Italian, and Fiorentina suck.
It seems that St Aloysius College class reports are much more important than I thought. I need to update my CV.
Do the Yellow Doors and After Schools have any weight?
I need your advice on this please, Daphne.
Jonathan, I regret to inform you that given that you had many yellow doors and after schools you will only qualify to be Parliamentary Secretary at best.
I don’t think so, jae. In my days the more Yellow Doors and After Schools you got, the shrewder you became. So it should be at least a minister, and if not, I will blow the House down…
I used to get so many after schools, that I did not bother checking the noticeboard any more. I would automatically stay extra. My parents assumed school finished at 5.30 at St Aloysius College.
[Daphne – ‘After school’ = Maltese for detention.]
It would be interesting to go through the punishment and reason records posted on the notice board downstairs.
Franco Debono after school answering back in class
Joseph Muscat after school insistent use of white socks.
Franco Debono would have been kept after school for that ugly pseudo mullet he used to sport back then.
Joseph Muscat would have been kept after hours for not wiping the kunserva off his face after his lunch.
It’s one of those images that stick …
What yellow doors?
A yellow door was the smallest form of punishment you could get, for example if you were not exactly in line during lining up, you would get a yellow door, which was basically spend the whole midday break of 45 mins standing up near a yellow door overlooking the football ground unable to play.
I am an Old Aloysian and my report card for Form II is better than Franco’s. Does that give me the right to demand to be Minister, please?
No, it gives you the right to say you are sane.
This is the mid-year exam report. I did better in my full year. Do I qualify for a PM then?
maltarightnow reports that at a press conference at the Palace, Franco Debono declared that he is “willing to work with anyone except Dr Gonzi”.
Why was Debono given access to the Palace facilities for a very ‘personal and vindictive’ press conference?
[Daphne – He’s an MP (just in case nobody’s noticed) and MPs have full access to parliament, which is at the Palace.]
What is taking the NP’s Executive to kick his a*se and throw him out of the party’s Parliamentary group?
His behaviour is irrational, goes beyond political motivation and based solely on his narcissistic traits. In this case what are the President’s and the PM’s obligations towards the nation’s stability?
Since this is not a LP – NP tug of war, can the President not intervene and stop the nonsense? Is there not an ‘insanity’ clause in our Constitution?
By now, a person of sound mind would have determined that his chances of unseating a party leader, getting a ministerial position and even be reelected on the same party’s ticket is well beyond his reach. Yet Franco presses on with his suicide mission and it appears that the best avenue for all of us, is to keep taking it in and watch in horror.
Did he carry that report card in his wallet all these years? it looks pretty worn out to me.
And what does the ‘C’ mean? Were the students in the ‘A’ and ‘B’ class better than him?
For correctness sake, at St. Aloysius College during the 80s, being in Form 2A, B, C, or D made no difference at all.
From Form 3 upwards, A and B were the “arts” and “accounts” classes while C and D were the “sciences” classes.
Not correct – there were years when there where 3 science classes B,C and D with the very few (less than 5) who chose arts in B.
Which could answer Daphne’s query, Form 2C being the last class Franco and Joseph were in together, working and playing day by day.
I hope they weren’t Gonzaga.
The teacher’s remarks for Arabic read “Excellent”.
Seeing that Italy is not a democracy according to Franco’s standards since they have a technocratic government and with the Arab Spring bringing countries closer to a democracy, may I suggest that he chooses one of our Southern neighbours and open an office there (and go and live there too, obviously).
Worth a read
http://pawlugatt.com/2012/01/07/francos-report/
Hilarious!
If Franco was scoring 73 in mathematics already at that young age, then it shows he has problems dealing with logical reasoning.
He must have had trouble understanding the meaning of equations and how to manipulate them.
Knowing that he had very high grades in subjects requiring mostly memory, this 73% mark was surely achieved by recalling similar problems and providing ‘solutions’ from memory rather than building solid logical solutions.
From experience, students who excel in their capacity to use memory can still manage to obtain decent grades in maths, since unfortunately the creativity in math exam questions (not in my exam papers) is usually very low and if the student manages to work out a good number of similar questions he would manage a good grade even though the logical brain is switched off.
This is what happens when someone is brought to power (or close) while he/she never really learnt to tap into the powers of the logical brain.
Should I laugh or should I cry?
PS. I’m much younger than Franco yet I haven’t retained my school results because they’re not important. Also, my degree is somewhere in some drawer because nowadays having a bachelor’s degree is the norm not the exception.
Franco is a completely pretentious and pompous nutcase. The calamity is that he’s holding the whole country hostage.
Maths 73%?
I’d have been worried about such a bad mark.
That “certificate of excellence” from some teacher at St Aloysius College is 25 years out of date and issued by someone who has no claim to psychiatric competence.
http://guziborg.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/not-a-crazy-man-seriously/
“Good behaviour”. Ahem.
What I’m seeing is not that great a report.
At St Aloysius College, there were four classes in each year when I was there (1954-1960).
“A” and “C” took Latin whereas “B” and “D” took French.
Best pupils were put in “A” and “B” classes but were demoted to “C” and “D” classes if they did not keep up their momentum.
It is also pertinent to say that if you chose to learn French rather than Latin, the Jesuits perceived you as never likely to join their Society or likely to go to university, and this left you without a mentor and to your own devices.
Having a professional for a parent also helped immensely, as did being a boarder or day-boarder rather than an extern.
“Watch th’ heed, the noo”, but thanks to those wonderful Sisters at St Emily de Vialar, my admission marks to St Aloysius College in 1954 were 97% achieving best result out of 660 pupils sitting.
I was also two years younger than other kids taking the exams (eight years old and sitting for form 1), so if Franco Debono considers this school certificate to be his “flagship”, it is not “all that”.
Ms Daphne, if you think this comment is “flashy” please do not hesitate to bin it. I abide by and rely on your discretion.
I merely want to make the point that he was in “C” and not in “A” and less was expected from the “C” class who, incidentally, were “promoted” to “A” if they excelled at any time during the scholastic year.
Maybe Franco WAS promoted, who knows? Silly subject? Yes I know, so please forgive me.
Peppi iehor, by the 1980s, the Jesuits had gone bolshy and had abolished streaming. You could be a genius (make that geek) and find yourself in Form 2 E.
Alas sir, I regret that I am neither. But if you permit me to direct you to a truly admirable, intelligent and unsung Old Aloysian (no, not Franco Debono), spare a few moments to catch up with the unpretentious Tony Busuttil, http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/cpd/courseinfo/engineering/anthony_busuttil.html. (Think Lockerbie, Schipol El Al, Chairmanship of European Council of Legal Medicine, forensic pathology textbooks, etc, etc, etc. and only then consider the attribute of “genius”).
I admire Tony’s certificates a whole lot more than do I Franco’s.
Tony is consulted by governments all over the world even now, several years after retiring and his departure from Malta was always going to be our great loss.
He labours outside of the limelight and certainly does not throw tantrums, notwithstanding the fact he can back up his every advice with science.
My sis and I would have been given the beating of a lifetime with that report card. I know, it says more about our parents than anything else, but such is life. Franco’s immediate family cannot be very smart if he thinks this is great. Miskin.
Dan franco nafu li ghandu mama, imma ghandu papa? possibbli li il-papa ma jtiehx xi parir biex idabbar rasu qabel ma jdabbrulu rasu huma?
Papa dare not speak lest Mama get angry and cut zi balls.
Nghidlek jien, missieru xebgha jghidlu imma Franco ma jridx jisma’.
Meta kellem lil wiehed habib tieghi wara li staqsieh dwar Franco, il-missier fetah idejh it-tnejn u qallu “Heqq, hu ta’ rasu u donnu ghandu pjan”.
The psychological damage inflicted on Dr Debono is clear (and understandable – I was at St Aloysius College, too). Blame the Jesuits.