How does your school give awards?

Beware0fNerd
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:50:40 +0000

My school gives out awards at the end of the year and they are certificates for basically every type of class we offer, plus important scholarships/recognitions, etc. There is also a trophy winner in each subject area. I dont quite understand how it works. There was a girl who got a science certificate without taking a science class that year… and i dont think they take into consideration any extracurriculars, only classes taken at OUR school because there is someone who is much stronger in math in our senior class than the one that the math department chose… its kinda messed up, but oh well. A lot of it is being close to teachers it seems like…

I do like one thing however. the awards ceremony only has one category for athletics. They put so much emphasis on athletics at our school. I don’t see how our losing football team gets money but our phenomenal (not me, anyways) debate team gets nothing, and i mean nothing. No support, no funding, no recognition. But the losing football team… We have to pull students out of class to recognize them… sigh… sorry, that was kinda off topic. Oh well, the rant made me feel better