A Florida High School's lunchtime is serving up some controversy how the school started a program that seats
students for their midday meal by grade point average and attendance
Hudson high schools reported reasoning is to motivate students to do better in class critics a divides rather than inspires
What you're all thoughts? I mean to be fair sometimes
There are privileges to be earned when you are a good student like
Off-campus lunch privileges and whatnot but this is so public it can feel very marginalizing
And I'm thinking about those students who might have a difficulty performing in classrooms because of learning disabilities
Maybe developmental disabilities mental health issues like performance anxiety and now they are being shunned and that's going to make their problems worse
situation even when I looked at it from a different angle which is
It's not exactly
popular to do well in school and so when I'm in high school, I'm not advertising to everyone that hey
I'm doing really well you want to almost be subtle and fit in and so for whether the
Child not making grades, or you're doing well
You can kids can get bullied for doing well in school
We didn't have this situated the 4.0 Club right and I remember being in class and they said well you have to go for your
4.0. Club picture now everybody is like throwing
Is it's it's kind of shaming
Right yeah, so it's segregating kids and really outing them whether or not they're off track or on track
I don't think there's a win in this either. It's like an open system
You're going almost exactly and it's bullying in both directions because some of the cut-offs on this
I was actually really troubled about I mean the great part that you have to have at least a 2.0
GPA you can't have any EPS that's the segregation on the grade front, but there's also an
Absentee aspect that even if you have for excused absences you're still considered off-track so to your point about
Discrimination and sort of the disabilities like what if you have a medical condition what if you have a family situation right I mean?
You're gonna be back. It is a weird elitism
It is weird that is not healthy did jobs any age
Right did y'all try to hide the fact that you were good students when you were in school. Yeah a little bit
I was elite nerd and I owned it your own
I
Just remember my high school graduation
when I
Followed Victorian I was salutatorian, but I will say that when I went up on stage. I think that that people were
The people weren't in the honors classes were a bit surprised because I did not I did not want to advertise
Oh
No
No
No the reason that I'm passionate about this in the whole bullying of when I was when I was a kid growing up
Before I went through my growth spurt. They called me stork the dork, and I was like
I'm not kidding and that was I was and then I went through my growth spurt, but through high school I
Really wanted to keep it quiet that I was doing well
Because I did not I just you just want to fit in you don't
Say that sometimes actually it's harder
Win the award for shortest shorts though I
Was just thinking that that
Certainly it depends on what era you grew up in and you know sort of the culture of your school
There's some schools that are more academically oriented where it's super cool to be top of the classroom
And then there's some schools
Which are like, I went to kind of like a public school where it was like on the beach
And it was like really cool to be you know a surfer or a beach person probably exposure different
Those friends I have from high school are my lifelong friends like we still get together
And and it was like everybody those friends
I still have we were all just ourselves, but I think women or girls at that age
If you find your niche, and you find your group, then you will be comfortable in your own skin
And you can be whoever you are and I think that's the most important thing
But I think for boys if you're kind of a nerdy guy you get picked on so much more
So I like it's also I think your practice or concept, which I think we all agree on which is
Divisive nough spaced on academics creates a major problem because here the 4.0 student or the 2.0
Student to me the 4.0 student and 2.0 students should still be hanging out
Skills that you don't I
Know I did that I had friends all across the board high school, and that's what made it fun
I do think people should be able to choose their friends, and I think that y'all setup makes me feel like
If nests are never constructive they never lead to better outcomes. I just think this is a really there yes
