Stephen the Cook wrote: > MB Software Solutions General Account <> wrote: > >> Pete Theisen wrote: >> >>> Hi Stephen! >>> >>> I think they should do it like they did before for YEARS. Make no >>> pass/fail announcements at all and just distribute blank parchments >>> to >>> the losers. The losers can finish up during night or summer school >>> or take the GED. >>> >>> Sure, this is social graduation, but the segregation, protests and >>> counter protests smack of social discrimination, which is worse, >>> really. >>> >>> >> I'd actually agree. Rather than make a spectacle, just give them a >> blank sheet of paper. >> > > Why should they be a participant in a graduation when they ARE NOT > graduating? I'm sorry but you know ahead of time that you have not passed > the tests that the state requires. > > When are we as adults going to teach our youth that rules exist and need to > be followed. Just because your 9/10 of the way there your not entitled to > the "day" that your fellow classmates who did do the work and passed the > tests achieved. > > Well, yes, they shouldn't even participate but my point was more to the fact of not making a spectacle of it, chiding them terribly. Sure, they failed, and they most likely (hopefully) aren't proud and already feel terrible. Why drive the stake in them moreso? Basically, I didn't like an idea seen as cruelty, yet at the same time, NFW should they receive any praise for their failings.
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