We cannot have academic competition because the losers might suffer from poor esteem for life.
We cannot have academic competition because the losers might suffer from poor esteem for life.
“as educators try eliminate the competition among students to be No. 1 of their class. “
Collapse = Our best hope.
it is about the.a hole parents in dublin, not.the kids.
Everybody gets a trophy!
Hooray!
It looks like we don’t need illegal immigration to have valedictorians - we can just manufacture our own in bulk.
Smart class!
“what happened to Columbus?” facepalm.
Grade inflation on steroids.
Probably lots of those neat little exams where you can score more than 100.
How many Salutatorians did they have?
Remember the good old days of ABC’s Wide World of Sports: ‘the human drama of intense competition’; ‘The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat’?
Back when goils was goils and men was men...
People smoked cigars and cigarettes and drank booze and there was no such thing as a kid’s bicycle helmet.
And America was strong and free and held the promise of rising as high as one’s abilities (and hard work) would allow them.
But now we have this...
Did they all make a valedictory speech at their graduation ceremonies?
I graduated from high school in 1991. There were seven valedictorians in our class but all had 4.0 averages and all but one were in the same advanced classes. Sometimes there’s just a bunch of hard working smart kids.
Everyone is special and above average, here is your diploma!
“oooh pretty... what does it say?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler_(University_of_Cambridge)
At Cambridge, there’s only one Senior Wrangler.
Dublin,Ohio; where all the students are above average!
More evidence of the on-going process I call: “Pussyfication of America”
Girls don’t like competition.... Boys do.
Guess how well boys are faring in education these days?
Oh for the days when an A was an A....