UPSR and a Mother's Rant and Vent

Afifah had a way of saying it "Congratulations!  I heard Zarif managed to get all As except for BM!"  Thanks Fifah, and truth be told, I was happy with his results.  Six months ago he was struggling with Math, particularly fractions. MrM and I decided to get Cikgu Harun and Cikgu Liza to privately coach Zarif and we would like to think that has paid off with him getting an A for his Math, when just six months ago he scored 50 odd marks for Math.

What annoyed me was my well-meant brother-in-law called Zarif immediately upon reaching home, asked about his results, and reprimanded Zarif for not getting 5As.

Come on!

Can I just say that your daughter, dear brother-in-law, performed the requisite 5As for UPSR, 7As for PMR and 5As for SPM and in the end did not pass her Matriculation resulting in pursuing a Tourism course in Kuantan?

The moral of the story is : It is just UPSR for goodness sake!  Is he lesser of a mortal intelligence because he managed to get 3As?  UPSR is no predictor of his future.  UPSR is no predictor of success in life.  Heck! A university degree is no predictor of success in life, however you define it to be.