Back when I was a Math grad student, one day while hanging around the chair's office the chair relayed to me a curious story- a parent had just been into his office to complain about the grade their student had received from one of the professors. The student was a high-school age kid who was participating in the University as an Advanced Placement student, and according to the parent, was raised to be an A student. The professor sadly had given the
student a B grade for the term, and the parent considered that an insult to his child and against how they had raised them. I don't remember what the chair said back, but I'm pretty sure it was an interesting response in defense of the professor. Some days I think we tend to say similarly confusing things to each other about similar situations. In going through these reports we will need to scrutinize each other's work product, fairly and objectively, in the hopes that the overall success rate for our mentoring efforts will improve over time. These criticisms should be met with decency and respect, not crowing over how meddlesome it is for someone to comment on the quality of your work. I'd like to someday even see mentors show enough respect and humility for their peers in the group to seek out their counsel in situations they have never encountered before, so that we all can provide some input designed to help the project continue on.
