As Honor Students Multiply, who really is one?

[richs73cas]

<p>Article in NY Times notes the multiplication of the number of High School Honor Societies.</p>

<p>[Long</a> Island’s Commack High School Rethinks Honor Societies - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/education/01honors.html?hp]Long”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/education/01honors.html?hp)

There have been so many honor societies created at Commack High School on Long Island in recent years that some students ended up in six or seven of them, racking up memberships like so many merit badges or thanks-for-playing trophies. . . .
With so many societies, some students are unable to attend all of the meetings and shirk their duties with the groups, showing up only to collect the “honor cord” — a decorative tassel — to wear at graduation. . . .
“The problem comes when you’re trying to run an honor society where kids don’t want to be and they’re skipping meetings and they’re not doing anything,” said Amanda Seres, president of the 168-member English society.</p>

<p>Amanda said she joined only two other societies (national and English) so as not to overextend, but acknowledged that “it will be kind of hard in May when I’ll have three honor cords and everyone else will have nine.”

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<p>Should there be limits on the number of societies a HS Student can join, beyond the academic qualifications required to be admitted?</p>

[fuzzleshnops]

<p>Or just get rid of the honor cord. My school doesn’t have them and ~90% of my graduating class was in NHS.</p>

<p>If you want the honor cord for pride reasons, then you have to get over yourself. Your education and future college should be good enough.</p>

[math_sci_asian]

<p>Yea, honor cords are pointless in general. If you’re at the point you actually care about them, you probably don’t deserve them.</p>

[nil_desperandum]

<p>or create 3 rigorous HS that are hard to enter so getting in one would be a real accomplishment.</p>

[Millancad]

<p>My school only has the Cum Laude society. About 20 students are in it each year. I don’t get why a school would have a million honors societies.</p>

[mj_rothlan]

<p>haha i commented on the parents thread about this too…
but honor societies are ego rubs. nhs at my school is where all the i’d-whore-myself-to-get-into-harvard crowd joins… so i didnt.</p>

[math_sci_asian]

<p>^They should go on CC. NHS doesn’t count for anything to Harvard</p>

[yoursky]

<p>NHS is such pretentious bullsh&t.</p>

<p>Qualifying for one is great, but swarming in for the membership like locusts on a plantation is beyond repulsive.</p>

[MeSsIaH_1]

<p>that’s why you forgo these “honor” clubs and just win competitions, the bigger the better.</p>

<p>edit: no that’s what she said joke please</p>