Suggestions for HS academic awards criteria

sabaray
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:16:34 +0000

Our school has a “Recognition of Excellence” that recognizes achievement at all grade levels. Students are “ranked” at four different levels. Teams of teachers from each department select the outstanding students in the department based on established, publicly known criteria. I think that’s another important fact…we don’t have teachers picking the “best” from their class, it’s a team of teachers from the department selecting the “best” based on the criteria the department has established. My daughter has been on the losing end of awards where students have received awards as “most improved”…which basically meant they went from throwing a desk at the beginning of the year to sitting quietly by the end of the year. I think those awards are meaningless.