{"id":8072,"date":"2004-01-25T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/dishonoring_the_honor_roll.html"},"modified":"2004-01-25T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2004-01-25T12:27:37","slug":"dishonoring_the_honor_roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/dishonoring_the_honor_roll.html","title":{"rendered":"Dishonoring the Honor Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

They want to stop posting honor rolls<\/a><\/p>\n

Because it makes some kids feel bad. (And there are privacy issues, apparently)<\/p>\n

But I don’t suppose we’re going to stop celebrating athletic achievement, are we? Grrrrr.<\/p>\n

At the Florida Catholic school Katie attended from K-2nd grade, I had some run-ins on this score, mostly involving the library. First had nothing to do with us personally, but with the labeling of library books. The picture books were labeled “E,” you know, for “Easy.” Well, they changed what the “E” stood for, with great fanfare – if it meant “easy,” that would make older kids who read them feel bad. So they changed to “everybody.” <\/p>\n

And then, when she was in 1st grade, Katie was, of course, taken to the library with her class once a week. By that time, she was well into reading chapter books of all kinds. But 1st graders were only allowed to check out books from the “E” section, with no exceptions. You know, because if they let a Katie check out a chapter book, that would….make the other kids feel bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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