All hail mediocrity

[Rolando]

swampy wrote:
http://eagnews.org/all-hail-mediocrity-p...-assembly/

This happened to my son back in 1986.

Thank God we've gotten away from that HippyDippy Presidency!

[davester]

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.

[$tevie]

It turns out that only children receiving awards could attend Honors Night, where they got to hear messages from inspirational speakers. By opening the ceremony up to all pupils, "the kids who need the inspirational speakers" can be there, Fabrizio said."

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/...didnt?lite

[Gutenberg]

Faux News reported the story incorrectly? Get out! You're kidding.

[$tevie]

Gutenberg wrote:
Faux News reported the story incorrectly? Get out! You're kidding.

Thank you. At least I know that one person saw my post.

[Dennis S]

Good grief. Has swampy EVER posted something controversial that didn't ultimately get proven to be wrong?

[swampy]

NBC is full of crap. The EVENING ceremony was canceled which allows parents to attend. It was replaced by a school assembly where working parents would not be able to attend.

And if you think the under achieving kids will appreciate honoring the geeks you don't know kids. I can hear the hooting and cat calls now. Another form of liberals penalizing achievement.

[Dennis S]

"Another form of liberals penalizing achievement."

It's got nothing to do with liberals. Your insane obsessions are really getting old. (Can someone explain how so many people get this nutty?)

[swampy]

Maybe you are the nutty one.

[Lemon Drop]

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.

You know, I've been a parent for 20 years and I taught school for five years, so I've been to a lot of awards-type things for kids in many different schools. I have never, ever, been in a situation where the audience (kids or adults) was rude to the awards recipients.

I think your comment, swampy, if its' true, says more about the type of community you lived in when your child was in school than it does about school in general, and it certainly has nothing to do with politics.

I'm sorry you couldn't have found a better situation for your child, I'm sad for you both. (Is this the same town you brag about regularly, the one with the endless spaghetti fundraisers to pay for everyone's health care?) That same town produces these rude children? Or did you move?