I can vividly recall the admonition given to us in first grade by our nuns: “Your actions have consequences and there will be a permanent record that will reflect that and follow you through life.” As seemingly every misconduct sanction, recognition, and grade were discussed with them at year-end, I certainly took that warning quite literally in those early years. Perhaps because the precept was so deeply instilled, many in my generation also assumed that something akin to this “permanent record” followed us throughout our lives, including in the business world that we eventually inhabited.
Imagine how shocked some friends and I were, upon returning to that beloved grade school many decades later, to learn that there was no record whatsoever of our eight years there. On the one hand, it was cathartic to learn that all our various misdeeds had been wiped clean from the great scoreboard in the sky, but gone, too, were all those things we had worked extra hard to achieve — whether it had been an academic honor, awards for tutoring students who needed help, or even our treasured football trophy that had unceremoniously been tossed in the trash, too, as part of the record cleansing that eradicated all tangible signs of our time at the school.
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