Anonymous
05/06/2026 12:20
Subject: School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
Just be happy your child is well accomplished. They will be fine with college admissions. They don't need trophies. Most importantly, make sure they enjoy their childhood. Don't stress them tf out with your obsession.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 06:29
Subject: School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
OP, you sound extremely insecure. It’s important to realize that no one cares as much about your kid as you do. It’s not on the school to publicly celebrate them for every achievement. If that’s important to you, then you can do it.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 00:32
Subject: Re:School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: The struggling students need the support and encouragement. Don’t be small.
Exactly, this is what the culture has become - don’t make low performing students feel bad, don’t eclipse them with your achievements, you are making others feel bad if you talk about your accomplishments, keep it to yourself.
It feels like socialism.
Ironically, I’ve just read in Reddit about low income students who had to work 20 hours/week in a restaurant since twelve, yet excelled academically and got into Ivies schools with full scholarships.
You are an uneducated idiot. If anything, socialism always celebrates "workers' achievement", it is a huge part of propaganda. High-achieving proletariat was even issued special awards
People use the word socialism for all kinds of things, most unrelated to socialism. Are you talking about some communist government from 100 years ago?
Anonymous
05/04/2026 07:57
Subject: School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
Re: OP's question/complaint, it may just be the result of the practices of one school communications staff person and what crosses their desk. News coverage could change based on sharing news with that person. In my kids' school district, pretty much anything you tell them to publicize gets publicized.
In the small town where I grew up, the local newspaper published the news about anything that kids won or did that was newsworthy. Like which kids got National Merit. The school took photos then sent the info and pictures to the paper to publish. That kind of little paper is rare now.
In the small town where I grew up, the local newspaper published the news about anything that kids won or did that was newsworthy. Like which kids got National Merit. The school took photos then sent the info and pictures to the paper to publish. That kind of little paper is rare now.
Anonymous
05/04/2026 02:18
Subject: Re:School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: The struggling students need the support and encouragement. Don’t be small.
Exactly, this is what the culture has become - don’t make low performing students feel bad, don’t eclipse them with your achievements, you are making others feel bad if you talk about your accomplishments, keep it to yourself.
It feels like socialism.
Ironically, I’ve just read in Reddit about low income students who had to work 20 hours/week in a restaurant since twelve, yet excelled academically and got into Ivies schools with full scholarships.
You are an uneducated idiot. If anything, socialism always celebrates "workers' achievement", it is a huge part of propaganda. High-achieving proletariat was even issued special awards
Anonymous
05/04/2026 02:14
Subject: Re:School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: The struggling students need the support and encouragement. Don’t be small.
Exactly, this is what the culture has become - don’t make low performing students feel bad, don’t eclipse them with your achievements, you are making others feel bad if you talk about your accomplishments, keep it to yourself.
It feels like socialism.
Ironically, I’ve just read in Reddit about low income students who had to work 20 hours/week in a restaurant since twelve, yet excelled academically and got into Ivies schools with full scholarships.
Anonymous
04/29/2026 08:08
Subject: School doesn’t celebrate high achieving kids
Anonymous wrote:This is just a vent.
DC switched from private to a magnet public in high school. On paper they looked good. In reality, the admins in this school are either very incompetent or have some weird agenda.
They celebrate no child left behind level of activities - students built a drying rack for firefighters or students got 30 on ACT, but they tone down high achieving kids.
They have news letters, social media, podcast where the school constantly advertises itself.
DC did was a huge success story for a local STEM state program - selected one of 40 from 800 applicants for an internship, scored the highest in their contest and got 1st prize, was featured in state magazine for this. Not a sound from the school.
I see the old school posting about students’ awards, wins, recognition. “We are very proud of Larla for being the only student chosen for this super internship.”
DC was selected for a top ranked national research program, the one that picks 20 kids from the entire country and very high stats kids often don’t get in. The school doesn’t care. Not a word.
DC is going to be a national merit semifinalist - not a sound.
So yeah, I’m holding a grudge.
How does your DC feel about this experience?
You forgot to mention that, but I'm sure your DC's feelings weighed heavily on your mind.
You're asking on behalf of your DC, right?
Right?