Posted on 05/21/2014 8:57:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
"A Rhode Island school district that had come under criticism for canceling a night for honors students over concerns that the event would be too 'exclusive' is reversing its stance.
But in a statement released on Tuesday, the middle school backed off.
"We have decided to honor excellence as we had planned, but at a traditional evening event," said the statement values about student learning and performance."
The statement says the school is planning an event next month to "celebrate student excellence"
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I can only imagine the outrage. If that had been one of my kids, what I would have said would be unprintable here!!
Yes, honoring achievement is “too exclusive” and is quite likely prone to “disparate impact”.
I’m glad to hear there was some push-back, to me this merits an angry mob with torches and pitchforks surrounding a school board meeting.
I feel confident that I can speak for all slackers when I say that a celebration of excellence makes me feel left out and potentially oppressed.
I was actually thinking that my extreme brilliance was a disabling handicap, and merits some kind of financial wealth redistribution from all the slackers out there ...
"Everybody has won, and all must have prizes!”
- Lewis Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
When I went to mine, I didn’t recieve a thing...however the next day my picture was on the front page of the local rag.
So I guess I got the “I was there” award. ;) It made Mom happy.
To balance things out, they should have had a "Dumb-as-a-Bag-of-Doorknobs Night" the following day.
That way, everyone would have been represented, and no one would have been left out.
Regards,
A bunch of mediocre teachers and administrators who probably never earned any honors, themselves.
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