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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As you should be. It is important that public employees follow the law. It is concerning when they believe they don't have to and substitute their own judgement.[/quote]
I'm all for public employees following the law but other than not responding to an FOIA (and that doesn't even necessarily mean [i]answering[/i] 'the question') -- which it sounds like they did -- what other 'law' was broken? Not publishing the whos, hows, or how-manys of honor roll? Really? For middle school?

[quote]Beyond that, students - even all A students - [b]have a right to know their rank[/b]. This should be basic ethics.[/quote][size=7](my emphasis)[/size]

I used to think that. And still maybe do....for [i]that[/i] student. But to have "rank" blasted out just seems so meh these days. When straight-A students don't break the top 50 (say of a class of 500) because of weighting, it almost becomes meaningless. And before someone screams that a 4+ indicates rigor, just know not every school offers an endless list of weighted classes, nor is every student eligible for them (sometimes because of long-ago tracking decisions or lack of nascent recommendations). When even your PE class is weighted (like for our local IB programme), that borders on ridiculous.

All this reminds me of a favored joke from the past that I'd tell young people I was mentoring on the hiring process:

[i]A young person is interviewing for a job. Interviewer asks what their rank is. And the answer: I am one of those that make the Top 50% possible![/i]

Turn lemon into lemonade.

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