[laweeks]

Honor Rolls are wallpaper up here in northeast Ohio. The local paper's list of the schools' honor rolls looks like an attendance roster. I counted the names on three of the local schools' lists, called the schools to find out how many total students were enrolled in their school, and discovered that, on average, 51% of the students were listed . . . impossible to believe since, in the vocational post-high school institution that I teach in, MOST of the students know next to nothing about their native language (English) and even less about math tables, fractions, and any mental calculations.

Those honor rolls are for the school principal's resume, grabbing tax funding, and nothing more. You'd have to be a toad to not make the "honor roll."

[ntnychik]

Honor Rolls are wallpaper up here in northeast Ohio.

In our middle school our rate was more toward 70%. Grade inflation to the extreme, with some well meaning "self esteem" rationale thrown in.

My children and their friends were offended by teachers who discouraged competition.