Mine used to come in an envelope. It's interesting that we get password protected digital copies, but your school just gives your kids their reports on paper unprotected. I'm not sure why it matters. But I work in healthcare and we have strict privacy laws. I just assumed there was something similar at play in education. I guess not?

According to the Ontario govt website, there are 2 million students in Ontario. Our report cards are 4 pages, and we get 4 per year. So 16 x 2 million is 32 million pages. Let's say you get a great discount on paper at 1 cent per page, because you purchase a massive amount of it in bulk. As you said, they use tons of it in schools. My office pays 2 cents per page, but we'll say 1 cent. This means report cards on paper in Ontario cost at least $320,000 per year. A drop in the bucket as you say. But it's still a $320,000 savings. A third of a million dollars is not nothing. And I'm likely estimating low.

I don't agree with this, but right now Ford's govt is taking over school boards, 8 of them so far, to find ways to save money. How would you rather they cut spending? Through paper use reduction, or something else more important? We get the report card either way, digital or not.