This report card of mine is from the same time period as A Serious Man. I was about the same age as Danny is in the movie. A thought just occurred to me on writing the name of the movie. Maybe there's a clue to the unseriousness of the movie in the title itself. Think about "symmetry" and its opposite, "asymmetry". Thus you can also have serious and a-serious. I was a-serious about school when I was in the 7th grade, definitely not a bit serious about getting A's.
For an explanation of what the V's and X's are about, see my Ink on His Face blog post of 27 June 2012, which shows the front and back of my 8th grade Dial Jr High report card.
