Posted on 05/21/2019 10:20:07 AM PDT by simpson96
PORT CLINTON, Ohio — One local school district is doing away with an old tradition: Port Clinton High School is no longer awarding a class Valedictorian.
Principal Gary Steyer said they have seen this trend begin to spread in other school districts, as the old way seemed to undermine the education process by creating a competition among top tier students.
"Three or four or five, maybe a year are really vying for one spot. And it became kind of this competition between them almost, and it just wasn't healthy for them," Steyer said.
Nick Perry, who transferred to Port Clinton last year said at his old school, the desire to graduate with top honors became so cutthroat at times that students would refuse to help their fellow classmates.
"I had felt that I had not received some assistance from other students because of that fact, because they wanted to see me be lower than them and I was higher than them at that point," Perry said.
But now, graduates at Port Clinton will receive laude honors, which is expected to celebrate the individual students accomplishments and work ethic, as opposed to ranking students against each other as if it were a competition.
"No one is singled out, but we're all fighting together, and kind of against each other, for that top spot; but we're all equal," senior Ally Batterton, who is graduating summa cum laude, said.
Port Clinton High School graduation is June 1 where 25 students will be graduating with laude honors.
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Pathetic liberal attitude - 'competition is unhealthy'.
Maybe they were tired of Asian students always getting it, and having to figure out to pronounce their names.
(That’s not meant as a knock on Asian students, far from it)
More, “Snowflaking” future generations of loser liberals.
Just think about the average, what use have they for you?
Wait until the liberals want to apply this to elections.
One President? The competition is unhealthy, we need four or five Presidents.
-PJ
There’s an old saying....if you want to get good at something....play with someone that’s better than you.
Are they still scoring tests and issuing grades?
Eliminate the job of Principal and let all teachers be co-principals. Equal, right?
I’m sure Patrick Adkins, the superintendent of the Port Clinton school system, will resign and give his job to someone he beat out to get the position.
They are picking out a small group for high honors.
Didn’t this group win that designation by unhealthy competition against the rest of the students? Doesn’t that go against what they say they are trying to accomplish here?
We have dozens of Democrat Federal judge-presidents already...
The graduates won’t learn how the real world works, but they will be prepared to behave like snowflakes at college.
Absolutely bizarre.
Notice we’re constantly admonished “We live in a Global Economy”, and the schools ply us with slogans like “Unlimited Vision” and other thought ending clichès.
If they alreally are cognizent of this, why is it our students are confused about say, which bathroom to use, while at the same time 5th graders overseas are taking Calculus. They are not deliberately inducing neurosis in their students. Why the unprecedented push to create a fearful, ignorant and downright useless student body?
Someone ought to tell these little pansies “As you go out to make your way in the world, here are the only two words you will ever need to get through the rest of your lives: “Spare change?’’.
Hmmm… I wonder if that will work with medical school.
“Who wants the brain surgeon who slept through neurobiology?”
Except in real life there is competition, and you have to be ready.
Typical LIB lunatics. Many (if not most) “educators” and education administrators are complete nitwits. They are abusing the children emotionally and intellectually.
‘competition is unhealthy’. It’s the leftist rationale behind rigging elections; of course, once the desired result is achieved, it’s okay to have winners and losers. But only in rigged elections.
Remember that good competition built the American capitalist system. Only through that have we gone to the moon, freed countless prisoners from tyranny, cured millons, advanced science and engineering, fed millions, created wealth and liberated enslved people. China knows. Capitalism showed the world that they could do it too if they want to. You don’t have to work hard if you work smart.
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