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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  So just knowing your child is successful isn’t enough for you? You need the bragging rights and for everyone else to know just how great your kid is?

Maybe the school is highlighting things that help the community or highlighting students who may not otherwise receive any recognition. Maybe they’re hoping that these kids will continue to be excited about learning and helping others.

Sounds like your child already knows how to be a strong student and is used to being constantly praised and highlighted. Why do they need the continual public ego boost?[/quote]

Who cares what parents say to their kids?

My kid sees the school recognizing others for this or that - kindness award, school athletes, but DC is invisible.

To me it feels that American public schools celebrate mediocrity, because I don’t see the outlier being celebrated and I know they are there from all kinds of families.[/quote]

It is all kinds of families.  It’s unremarkable when a high income family drives their kid to enrichment programs, tutors when it turns out their kid is average intellectually, SAT private and prep classes before taking the SAT test 4 times.  Everything is calculated down to the weekly schedule.

Compare that to the kid who walks home to their public housing high rise.  No one will be home until 9 pm after their shifts.  The majority of kids living there are hanging out outside.  This kid stays home and studies all afternoon.  Self starter, ambitious, intelligent, doing their best.  This kid would have loved a tutor to get their ACT up to a score of 33 but they got a 30 on their own.  Not bad.

Seriously, who is more impressive? [/quote]

Im my opinion, the question is the amount of effort. There are kids who get to 35-36 without tutors. So a score of 30 is not great. It’s like participation trophy - yay, you did some work.

And if a kid has a tutor it still takes hours and hours of practice to get to that level. There is no magic.[/quote]

It’s really obnoxious to claim 30 score is “not great”.  A 30 on the ACT test puts them in the 95th percentile.  In case you don’t understand this means that they did better than about 95% of test takers.   A 30 and up is considered excellent.

How ignorant are you?  And please don’t claim that everyone “in your circle” has kids who get 35 and 36 because that would be a lie.  [/quote]
A 30 is not great compared to a 35. It's completely illogical to celebrate a (possibly heavily prepped) 30 but not a (possibly self-studied) 35.[/quote]

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