Signing ceremony, solemn and touching

cypresspat
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:28:58 +0000

@amsunshine Hmmm…I don’t know if it a regional thing or what, but I would say our HS touts academic achievements as much as sports ones. The academic achievement things tend to be winning state or national competitions (Latin, and things like that) and everyone knows who the NM winners are, at every level. Every athlete who has a high GPA gets noticed. At the end of the year, each sports team gives a ‘scholar-athlete’ award to the kid with the highest GPA.

Our school does not rank, oddly enough, and I none of my kids have noted that it is a ‘cut-throat’ place (although not sure the older two would have noticed). But we are NOT a sports power house kind of school. Much MUCH bigger emphasis on music. All kids are require to start an instrument in fifth grade. Music classes are mandatory through HS, daily. So our band system is HUGE.

Too bad your school’s culture doesn’t tout the academic achievers. Really, that is kind of a shame. Academic success is far more likely to help any kid than any sport, in the long run. This is kind of hard for me to imagine. There is a private catholic school in my community where a lot of the kids with college sports aspirations go. I wonder if the culture there is different. Will have to check!