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I am all for sensitivity toward kids who are struggling with academics, providing them encouragement, and avoiding humliating them.<\/p>\n

It seems to me there’s a world of difference between that and doing away with recognizing academic achievement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The school honor roll, a time-honored system for rewarding A-students, has become an apparent source of embarrassment for some underachievers.
\nAs a result, all Nashville schools have stopped posting honor rolls, and some are also considering a ban on hanging good work in the hallways on the advice of school lawyers.
\nAfter a few parents complained their children might be ridiculed for not making the list, Nashville school system lawyers warned that state privacy laws forbid releasing any academic information, good or bad, without permission.
\nSome schools have since put a stop to academic pep rallies. Others think they may have to cancel spelling bees. And now schools across the state may follow Nashville’s lead.<\/p>\n

I mean, what’s next — disbanding the football team because it humiliates the physically handicapped (not to mention pencil-necked geeks like I was)? Doing away with theater programs because kids with reading problems or speech impediments are less likely to get roles?<\/p>\n

Others think it might be a good idea to get rid of the honor roll altogether, as Principal Steven Baum did at Julia Green Elementary in Nashville.
\n“The rationale was, if there are some children that always make it and others that always don’t make it, there is a very subtle message that was sent,” he said.<\/p>\n

Yes. It is that some <\/i>kids are consistently doing well, achieving, succeeding. And that some kids need additional help from the school to figure things out.<\/p>\n

Modeling is a very powerful tool. So is rewarding achievement. The idea that not <\/i>being recognized = humiliation = personal disrespect by the school strikes me as a wildly dangerous one.<\/p>\n

(via SoA<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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