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Originally Posted by aephi alum
Agreed.
Back when I was in high school, each department gave awards to the top 3 or 4 students. So while a school honors night could still "sort of" turn into a "John Smith show", there were plenty of other students getting awards - e.g. the math awards would go to John Smith, Rose Tyler, and Martha Jones, while the science awards would go to John Smith, Donna Noble, and Amy Pond.
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aephialum, maybe that's the answer. I have mixed feelings on this whole thing. On one hand, you should get the award if you're the top dog. On the other hand, I can see where the parents came from who got an invitation and then had to sit there for the whole program after their child got Perfect Attendance and that's all--and a lot of them knew their kids were in close competition for the awards.
As a teacher, I know that usually several students are in close competition for the awards and maybe if they even gave top 3, it'd work. I don't think that everyone on every team deserves a trophy--we do far too much of that. On the other hand, there were those Smith Shows that went on and on forever and there were 4 years of those for each brother.
BTW, everyone really liked John and Joe and they are now thirtysomething lawyers.