Pat on the back or privacy violation? School honor rolls under fire (Ultra PC Alert)

NJ.com (AP) ^ | January 24, 2004 | Matt Gouras

[RWR8189]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The school honor roll, a time-honored system for rewarding A-students, has become an apparent source of embarrassment for some underachievers.

As a result, all Nashville schools have stopped posting honor rolls, and some are also considering a ban on hanging good work in the hallways -- all at the advice of school lawyers.

[RWR8189]

Can the PC nazis get any more ridiculous than this?

[bigghurtt]

slippery slope, slippery slope.

we have to take control of our nation before it's a total orwellian farce of a democracy.

[Indie]

This is more evidence that our country is FUBAR.

Thank God I sacrifice (understatement) to keep my kids in a private Christian school. The day the gubmint sticks its hands in that beehive (or more gun or internet regulation for that matter) is the day the gubmint will have a real "problem" on their hands. We will only bend so far, and indeed, we passed the limit long ago IMO.

[judgeandjury]

"I discourage competitive games at school," he (Baum) said. "They just don't fit my world view of what a school an indoctrination camp should be."

[quietolong]

School Honor Rolls Under Privacy Scrutiny
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1064487/posts

[AZLiberty]

They thought they could solve the problem by getting the necessary permission from the people whose names were to appear on the honor roll. But it turns out that by posting an honor roll you're "publishing" academic information about the people who didn't make it -- whose permission is thus also required!

[dljordan]

I was born and raised in Nashville and it didn't used to be like this. The city has been invaded by big city PC types that have wormed their way into everything. I'm ashamed.