Yes, I’m replying to myself. I should add she’s in Girl Scouts and earned badges for service working with senior citizens, collecting food for the food pantry and for volunteering a certain amount of time to the SPCA. I guess not good enough.
No, but I’m not surprised that creeping socialism has infected your local school district.
Your daughter sounds like a great person. More power to her. I’m sure she’ll go on to live a wonderful life.
It is a shame our lives are becoming more and more like the cliques that used to exist in grade school, and we can’t shine on our own, but only in the estimation of others.
Sounds like your daughter is too good for their politically correct priorities. Saying one volunteers in soup kitchens and with AIDS patients or travels to the hovels of Mexico are today’s criteria for a good person. Excelling in school is at the bottom of the list.
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If you don’t volunteer your time to promote a cause that they approve of, it doesn’t count.
She should go down to the ghetto and replace some incandescent bulbs with CFL’s and really score some points!
She needs to trascribe and perform the song "Mmmmm mmmm mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama" for the oboe. Also, Karate, or any other form of self defense, probably violates the zero tolerance policy toward violence (the PC policy that expells kids for defending themselves).
I’m sure it’s the lack of community organization work (volunteering) that led to this. Just take a look at some of the more famous college scholarships like the ones Coke and McDonalds awards and some of the other large companies. They will tell you that they award the prizes to the ones that have a large number of hours in community service and leadership positions while volunteering count for even more.
They assume the academics are acceptable. (A’s don’t mean as much as they used to since teachers pass them out like water.) Leadership and work in the community are what get academia excited today.
We are waiting on my son’s application (16 years old). He gets great grades, in a couple of sports, and some volunteer stuff with church. Not near what some kids (like your daughter) do.
We just got off my wife’s PC searching on the National High School Scholar’s Society from which he DID get an acceptance letter. My wife thought it was the Honor Society, but it didn’t sound right to me. Turns out it is just a list of names like “Who’s who”. Costs $60.
You and your daughter need to keep your focus on getting a good academic education and moral education, not on on clubs and “activities.” Keep you eyes on what is real and not what is popular.
Community service is chosen language for socialists to train young people to become snoops when the would be dictators assume power.
My son is a National Merit Scholar, but never got inducted into the NHS at his school. His reason? He’d have to make up stuff about his “community service”, so he chose not to submit a bunch of lies on his application. Guess what? Not being in NHS hasn’t hurt him a bit. He still has his college education completely paid for.