re: #538 MandyManners

Someone posted a link yesterday to an article about the Niagra school district that has abolished the valedictorian rankings for graduation.

That mentality is damaging to the kids. Once they get out of school, the newly minted “adults” soon realize that the world is not fair and that you only get out of it what you put into it. Pumping up kids with phony-balony imaginary confidence, rewarding ANY effort and basically defying the laws of human nature do more harm than any puffed up feel good nonsense these educators hope to give the kids with this.

Reward success and encourage the kids to be the best they can be….that is what they should be doing.