School Honors Nights

[FSUZeta]

Yes, nix the perfect attendance awards.

My daughter's hs only invited those kids/families who were receiving an award. My son's school invited everyone. We sat thru the awards ceremony his senior year and watched the younger hs students get their awards while not one senior got a thing. When I mentioned it to a teacher, he said that the teachers had all had a discussion and decided that the senior class had been such a premier class that they felt that the lower grades deserved their own spotlight. Besides that, they were graduating and going off to great schools. I said that that was fine, but it would have been nice to let the senior parents know this and we would have all just stayed
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[carnation]

My son's middle school tried something new this year and I liked it. First, no perfect attendance awards! Second, they had separate ceremonies on different nights for each grade. Third, they called each team up individually and each student got a folder with *all* his/her awards in it and they announced those as the student was walking. For instance, "Joe Smith: Honor Roll, Most Outstanding in Band and Science." Then onto the next kid.

We were out of there in 57 minutes! This was a ceremony that had lasted as long as 3 1/2 hours in the past..I clearly remember that year because I was hugely pregnant and after sitting on hard bleachers all that time, my legs wouldn't move. BlazerCheer and Ballerina had to almost drag me out a side door.