Your note took me back. I grew up in a relatively rural area of Western PA and the town's weekly newspaper would print the Honor Roll for both junior high schools and the senior high school. It was one of the bricks in a wall of Community.
Your note took me back. I grew up in a relatively rural area of Western PA and the town's weekly newspaper would print the Honor Roll for both junior high schools and the senior high school. It was one of the bricks in a wall of Community.
Yes it was! My family owned a neighborhood retail store and knew all their customers. Dad always reported when customers told him that they'd seen my name on the Honor Roll printed in the local weekly newspaper.
It also printed the names & photos of graduating seniors when they chose what college to attend, as well as graduating seniors who enlisted in the military.
I tried to print the local schools' Honor Rolls when I became a newspaper editor. The school guidance departments said, "We don't do that any more. It makes the other students feel bad."
Great. Hurt feelings trump celebration of achievement.
Oh, how times have changed! My teachers were quite forward about telling one that he had not made the honor roll that term. They thought of it as motivation as I'm sure yours did.
Your note took me back. I grew up in a relatively rural area of Western PA and the town's weekly newspaper would print the Honor Roll for both junior high schools and the senior high school. It was one of the bricks in a wall of Community.
Yes it was! My family owned a neighborhood retail store and knew all their customers. Dad always reported when customers told him that they'd seen my name on the Honor Roll printed in the local weekly newspaper.
It also printed the names & photos of graduating seniors when they chose what college to attend, as well as graduating seniors who enlisted in the military.
I tried to print the local schools' Honor Rolls when I became a newspaper editor. The school guidance departments said, "We don't do that any more. It makes the other students feel bad."
Great. Hurt feelings trump celebration of achievement.
Oh, how times have changed! My teachers were quite forward about telling one that he had not made the honor roll that term. They thought of it as motivation as I'm sure yours did.