Thursday, October 8, 2009

Re: Awards Assemblies

At my current school (The Bay School of San Francisco), we have no
academic awards and thus no end of year "awards assembly". We also do
not rank our students and therefore have no valdectorian, salutatorian,
etc. We're a relatively new high school (this is our 6th year of
operation), and this was an issue that we discussed periodically during
our first few years. As a faculty, we've always felt pretty strongly
that end-of-year awards were not consistent with our school's philosophy
and culture.

Sincerely,
Dave Wang

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> I've had a request from a Canadian School responding to my blog that
> recommends giving up end-of-year "awards assemblies"
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(http://www.nais.org/about/article.cfm?ItemNumber=3D151710&sn.ItemNumber=3D=
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> 1&tn.ItemNumber=3D147271 ), wondering what schools in the US have "no
> awards" policy as they do Any out there?
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> Cheers.
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> PFB
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