St Marys versus St Louis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indicative of how disorganized St Mary’s is: school starts on aug 23 (a Friday, which is stupid enough), but homeroom teachers won’t be assigned until Monday. Maybe they’re still hiring them?

I agree the school can be disorganized, but it looks like all hiring has been done. With the AP transition, the class list may not have been settled. I remember we usually got the assignments in early August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indicative of how disorganized St Mary’s is: school starts on aug 23 (a Friday, which is stupid enough), but homeroom teachers won’t be assigned until Monday. Maybe they’re still hiring them?

They do this so you won’t complain about your child’s teacher assignments or the students in their class.

Given how much you’ve complained on this thread, it sounds like this is a good approach.

Maybe they won’t announce teacher assignments at all. Just like not announcing honor roll. In fact, maybe they shouldn’t announce anything at all — just send emails with uninformative platitudes and who had the most “zeal” last month.

Bet they would rush to make an announcement about you leaving the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indicative of how disorganized St Mary’s is: school starts on aug 23 (a Friday, which is stupid enough), but homeroom teachers won’t be assigned until Monday. Maybe they’re still hiring them?

I agree the school can be disorganized, but it looks like all hiring has been done. With the AP transition, the class list may not have been settled. I remember we usually got the assignments in early August.

Nah, some parents probably agitated not to announce when families were leaving, so they wouldn’t be embarrassed. Sorta like not publishing the honor roll.

[Anonymous]

Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

Of course. All normal schools do. There’s no point in a secret HONOR roll. It’s a contradiction in terms.

The only schools that don’t publish it are those with whiney Karen big-donor parents whose kids didn’t make it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

Of course. All normal schools do. There’s no point in a secret HONOR roll. It’s a contradiction in terms.

The only schools that don’t publish it are those with whiney Karen big-donor parents whose kids didn’t make it.

I know you’d make another appearance!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

Of course. All normal schools do. There’s no point in a secret HONOR roll. It’s a contradiction in terms.

The only schools that don’t publish it are those with whiney Karen big-donor parents whose kids didn’t make it.

I know you’d make another appearance!

She’s persistent. Wonder if she’ll get herself blocked again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

No. The STL students get an honor roll certificate with their report card if they make it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

Of course. All normal schools do. There’s no point in a secret HONOR roll. It’s a contradiction in terms.

The only schools that don’t publish it are those with whiney Karen big-donor parents whose kids didn’t make it.

Our school (SSSAS) does not. I believe the kids are acknowledged in the in-school awards gathering where they also do book awards and other subject-specific honors, but parents don’t attend that and it isn’t emailed out. Somehow we all survive.

But this discussion has made it clear who the whiny Karen is. Do you own any mirrors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

Of course. All normal schools do. There’s no point in a secret HONOR roll. It’s a contradiction in terms.

The only schools that don’t publish it are those with whiney Karen big-donor parents whose kids didn’t make it.

Our school (SSSAS) does not. I believe the kids are acknowledged in the in-school awards gathering where they also do book awards and other subject-specific honors, but parents don’t attend that and it isn’t emailed out. Somehow we all survive.

But this discussion has made it clear who the whiny Karen is. Do you own any mirrors?

They don’t publish the honor roll? They just ANNOUNCE it to the entire student body during an in-person assembly? Ok - got it. I think you proved the point.

Don’t fret — I’m sure that eventually, some whiney Karens will convince the principal to cease that “unfair” practice. Then you can come back here and tell everyone how common/normal it is to honor achievements *in secret* so that nobody else knows about it except the recipient.

[Anonymous]

Some schools actually publish which COLLEGES (or high school) each graduating student is going to, by names. In some districts, local newspapers publish valedictorians and salutatorians. And so on.

Yes, believe it it not, many/most schools publicly honor and celebrate academic achievement and excellence. St Mary’s is the weird outlier here — make no mistake. Mediocrity has taken over. Sad.

[Anonymous]

^^Someone up a few posts said St Louis doesn’t post honor roll either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^Someone up a few posts said St Louis doesn’t post honor roll either.

Maybe it’s a new diocese policy — “don’t publicly celebrate academic achievement because it hurts feelings.” Which would be ironic given how supposedly conservative the diocese is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does St. Louis publish their honor roll?

Of course. All normal schools do. There’s no point in a secret HONOR roll. It’s a contradiction in terms.

The only schools that don’t publish it are those with whiney Karen big-donor parents whose kids didn’t make it.

Our school (SSSAS) does not. I believe the kids are acknowledged in the in-school awards gathering where they also do book awards and other subject-specific honors, but parents don’t attend that and it isn’t emailed out. Somehow we all survive.

But this discussion has made it clear who the whiny Karen is. Do you own any mirrors?

They don’t publish the honor roll? They just ANNOUNCE it to the entire student body during an in-person assembly? Ok - got it. I think you proved the point.

Don’t fret — I’m sure that eventually, some whiney Karens will convince the principal to cease that “unfair” practice. Then you can come back here and tell everyone how common/normal it is to honor achievements *in secret* so that nobody else knows about it except the recipient.

Oh sorry, I misunderstood your demands for an emailed list to be published so that all the parents who get the emails would know your kid is smart. The in school announcement doesn’t do that. My kid hated having their name called in public and couldn’t remember whether any of their friends were called for anything, so I have no more awareness of the results of my school’s list than you do of yours. The kids don’t care. I’d wager that YOUR kid doesn’t care, or didn’t before you amped them up. You, however, seem to care quite a bit.

[Anonymous]

In fairness, this not the school’s fault. The entire dmv area’s culture seems much more obsessed with sports (is my kid “sporty” enough) than with academic excellence. So nobody cares about honor roll one way or the other.

But god forbid if they didn’t announce who made sport ball All Stars, etc. Parents would riot in the streets! Including most of the parents here saying that announcing honor roll is no big deal.