03-22-2013, 04:20 AM
swampy wrote:
This happened to my son back in 1986. The principal held a school wide assembly to present awards to honor students. The result was an assembly hall filled with losers heckling the smart kids as they received their academic awards. My son won five or six awards and he told me he was embarrassed to walk up on stage after the first one. The parents were successful in getting the awards presented at an evening function the following year attended only by teachers, parents and honorees.
Stuff like this really pisses me off.
To me, this sounds like there is something very wrong with this school or community if this kind of heckling is tolerated or common, and should prompt disciplinary action from the administration. There is nothing unusual about having an all-school assembly that includes an achievement awards ceremony in high school or middle school.
I really don't understand what the objection is to the principal in the article. He switched from a private awards dinner (which to me seems a bit much and a bit overly exclusive for a middle school) to an all hands assembly with awards. This seems a bit more mainstream to me.