Do you reward Deans List?

switters
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:39:51 +0000

At my son’s high school, the kids who got straight As in any given quarter got taken to a local pizza joint for a dinner. This is a school that didnt have many of those kids. My son graduated in the top 5% of his class, and we had no idea that that was going to happen until they announced it at senior awards night. He had about a 3.7 UW gpa. But he acted more like a B student, forgetting to hand in homework, not studying for things that didnt interest him. So as a high school student, when he had a few of those straight A quarters, I made a huge deal about it. Did a happy dance, talked about how grateful I was because it meant the possibility of merit scholarship, etc. Also we did straight A shopping sprees. But those were pretty modest, and usually amounted to a nice dinner and a couple of pairs of jeans or a pair of fancy sneakers. Its pretty easy to wow someone with modest tastes. If he ever made deans list in college, I would spoil him rotten.