School Honors Nights

[PeppyGPhiB]

Everyone was invited to come to the Sr. Awards at my HS. Didn't mean you were getting an award. I think Perfect Attendance awards are stupid. I don't care if a kid has perfect attendance. If anything, that's setting them up for a pretty much totally unrealistic expectation later in life. In real life, most college students miss a class or five, and most companies give you sick days.

[GammaPhi88]

I hate the idea of perfect attendance awards. Much of life may be showing up, but that doesn't mean you're actually doing a damn thing with it.

[ElieM]

Award went to the top 5% of each class. If it was a massive subject, that could be quite a few, if it was a small class, then only 1 person or so

[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.

[KSUViolet06]

We only did the Excellence in English, Math, etc. awards in middle school.

Our HS awards event was always on the Senior's last day of school. It was in our auditorium at like 1:00. Parents were invited and seniors were dismissed after that (which was YAY because Prom was that NIGHT and we spent all day running around and being all OMGPROM!!!!")

It was weird because our awards ceremony was mandatory for ALL seniors, whether you were getting awards or not.

They formally announced the Top 10 (even though we were notified of our rankings every week and already knew), the Manhood/Womanhood Awards (think the Oscar, highest award at our HS. Your pic goes in the hallway in a frame forever lol), The big senior athlete award that I forgot, and a few other things.

They also announced who would graduate with honors/NHS.

Another thing they did was announce what colleges the Top 10, Honors, etc. grads would be attended and would note if the student would be receiving a presitigious or large scholarship.

I will admit that yes, it probably sucked to have to attend when if you were Steve Stoner who had a 2.5 and never cared about that kind of stuff. Or if you just found out like 2 days ago that you got edged out of the Top 10 because of your final grades and Suzie Topten got into your dream school when you didn't. But that's life.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Wow. We only had Awards for senior year, and only seniors and their parents were invited. We didn't have any awards in middle school or grades 9-11.