I live in Nashville and saw the letter that was sent home to the parents asking permission for "positive public recognition." My mother received hers for my little brother who is a freshman in high school. It is to publicly acknowledge academic achievment, attendance, effort, behavior, citzenship, birthdays as well as any other accomplishments. This note will have to be signed every school year because it is only good for the current school term. My main question for the school board is, will this really be effective and is this note really necessary. What parent in their right mind would not sign the note saying it is ok to acknowlege their child for doing well? Even to have your child's birthday posted on the board in school you must sign the note. I think it is sad that the board of education had to even ponder this and come up with this note. Students should be recognized for doing well in school. Parents who see a problem with this will not have children that are prepared for the real world. They post every player who scores points in a high school game, in the newspaper every week. I guess the parents of those who do not score as much should petition the newspaper about posting the players points in the paper because it might give some other players low self esteem.
This is by far one of the craziest decisions by the school board that I have seen.