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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have heard that DCI has a class ranking in middle school and then number 1 is the valedictorian and 2 is the salutatorian at the middle school graduation.  Is this true or just rumor? [/quote]

Isn't this how class rank works?
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It’s just unusual for a middle school to rank. DCPS middle schools don’t. And in fact it is increasingly unusual for high schools to rank. Most private schools don't rank. Most good suburban public high schools don't rank. Walls doesn’t rank. With ranking so out of fashion among the schools DCI surely sees as its peers, it’s interesting and surprising that the school has decided to rank even middle schoolers. [/quote]

Yes and it’s contributing to the wrong way education is going.  Great students and hard work should be acknowledged.  Goals can be set and it can be motivating for some students to work harder, do better. Some students don’t care and that’s fine, they won’t be at the top.

This everyone should be the same, everyone gets a trophy is not helping anyone.  Standards these days are so watered down, expectations lowered that kids go out to college and beyond woefully unprepared for the next higher level playing field.

Best to face reality early.  [b]There is always going to be someone smarter and better than you.  [/b]What you do with that information dictates your successes in life. [/quote]

I also think grades acknowledge hard work rather than smarts, and that's a good thing. (I know in my graduating class, the valedictorian was not the smartest person -- a handful had higher SAT scores and were just more brilliant. But she was smart and the hardest worker, and that should be recognized, and is motivating for others in a different way.)

We came from a DCPS elementary school where everyone got an award and the standards were kind of low and the kids CONSTANTLY talked about who the "smartest" was, and the parents always thought their kids were gifted, but I don't know what they were basing any of that on. Now at BASIS where the students with the best grades are very clearly communicated, and no one seems to be as obsessed with who is the "smartest" and "gifted". I think reality is a really good thing in these situations.
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+1.  Yep, kids talk and know who the smart kids are starting in upper elementary.  Also agree that smartest may not be at the top, could be the hardest one who is also smart.

Objective data is also good and helps kids from guessing and talking.[/quote]

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