How does your school give awards?

uber_cool
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:34:17 +0000

Every year there is a schoolwide recognition assembly that recognizes accomplishments throughout the year, mainly athletic ones. Then there is Senior Awards Night which is composed of school awards and small scholarships. There are awards for each department, and those are based on which student has taken the most courses in that department and then if that does not determine it, it goes to whoever has the highest grades in those classes. I think this is a pretty fair way of going about it. We also have other awards like distinguished honor roll, national honor society recognition, national merit scholar recognition, etc.

The other small sum scholarships were pretty well distributed. A lot for athletics and for music. Some were also for good citizenship and leadership. About 75% of the students in my class got some kind of award. (we only have about 100 kids in the class).

A lot of the same people got some of the big scholarships ($1000+), but these were based on need, and the people that got them really needed them, so I don’t think anyone begrudged that.