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Title: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Mase on June 02, 2016, 06:13:58 PM
...during graduation, says Plano Texas.

Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home (http://www.gopusa.com/a-sign-of-the-times-high-school-says-no-to-recognizing-honor-students/?omhide=true)
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on June 02, 2016, 06:15:47 PM
Can't have anyone feeling bad ya know.   ::)
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: nddons on June 02, 2016, 06:33:47 PM
...during graduation, says Plano Texas.

Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home (http://www.gopusa.com/a-sign-of-the-times-high-school-says-no-to-recognizing-honor-students/?omhide=true)
Ok, so we're all the same. Smart, hardworking students are the same as D student slackers.  There is no need to think of yourself as a certain gender, regardless of your hardware.  Being white implies that by definition you have privilege.  White people can believe they are black people, and that must be accepted. 

The tyranny of the minority trumps the majority in all respects. 

We are fuuuuuuucked. 
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: LevelWing on June 02, 2016, 07:07:01 PM
That's pathetic. I have to wonder if ideas like this were developed by people who weren't recognized (read: didn't earn it) as among the top of their classes in either high school or college and this is their way of getting back at people ("if I can't have it, no one can").
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: LevelWing on June 02, 2016, 07:07:25 PM
Ok, so we're all the same. Smart, hardworking students are the same as D student slackers.  There is no need to think of yourself as a certain gender, regardless of your hardware.  Being white implies that by definition you have privilege.  White people can believe they are black people, and that must be accepted. 

The tyranny of the minority trumps the majority in all respects. 

We are fuuuuuuucked.
If you're white but self identify as being black, do you still have privilege?
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Number7 on June 02, 2016, 10:46:08 PM
That's pathetic. I have to wonder if ideas like this were developed by people who weren't recognized (read: didn't earn it) as among the top of their classes in either high school or college and this is their way of getting back at people ("if I can't have it, no one can").

Liberals control education and are deeply devoted to destroying it to bring about socialism, which is really just communism in a nicer suit.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Jaybird180 on June 03, 2016, 05:03:43 AM
Liberals control education and are deeply devoted to destroying it to bring about socialism, which is really just communism in a nicer suit.
The two are not synonymous sir, though often seen together.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: pilot_dude on June 03, 2016, 06:24:11 AM
Don't wear your earned honors pin but feel free to wear a dress if you're a man feeling like a fish that day.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Jaybird180 on June 03, 2016, 07:19:54 AM
Finally able to read the article

There is a such thing as healthy and unhealthy competition.  They are competing for excellence in Academia - a healthy thing.

I wasn't honor society in HS and I felt ashamed that I wasn't.  I didn't knock those who were but I did pay a little more attention to what they did versus what I was doing.  I eventually got my act together Senior year in HS and that carried over to my Collegiate Honors performance.  "Failure is the best teacher" said the one professor who gave me the "B" I earned.  I missed a 4.0 because I didn't do an extra credit assignment he gave me. 2 stinking points was all I needed....2 stinking points!
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: bflynn on June 03, 2016, 07:45:28 AM
Or you could wear it and say that despite the pin, you self identify as a marginal student, then get offended when they accuse you of being a smart person.

I'm still a rebel.  I would wear it and then have a victim breakdown if they tried to either kick me out or make me take it off.  How dare they embarass me like that!  Hey, it's the system they've put in place.  We need to start using it to abuse their idiocy.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: JeffDG on June 03, 2016, 07:48:29 AM
So, what's next, the entire class gets to do validictory addresses individually, so the ones who aren't the top of the class don't feel bad?
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Little Joe on June 03, 2016, 07:53:32 AM
Or you could wear it and say that despite the pin, you self identify as a marginal student, then get offended when they accuse you of being a smart person.

I'm still a rebel.  I would wear it and then have a victim breakdown if they tried to either kick me out or make me take it off.  How dare they embarass me like that!  Hey, it's the system they've put in place.  We need to start using it to abuse their idiocy.
Make sure someone is recording it with their cell phone and post it on Youtube.  It will go viral.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Dav8or on June 03, 2016, 09:11:12 AM
I remember high school. The only people that care about that honor society crap are the people that are in it and their parents. Trust me, the other kids don't care.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Number7 on June 03, 2016, 09:20:24 AM
I remember high school. The only people that care about that honor society crap are the people that are in it and their parents. Trust me, the other kids don't care.

Spoken like a bitter failure, who hated the other kids for succeeding. Good socialist point of view.
It's so much better to stay low and avoid excelling because the slackers might feel jealous and take it on you and all...
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: JeffDG on June 03, 2016, 09:20:39 AM
I remember high school. The only people that care about that honor society crap are the people that are in it and their parents. Trust me, the other kids their future employees don't care.
Fixed that for you.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: jb1842 on June 03, 2016, 10:39:28 AM
So, what's next, the entire class gets to do validictory addresses individually, so the ones who aren't the top of the class don't feel bad?

Not next, already happening. Solution seems to be,

You have many valedictorians...

http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/06/oregon-high-school-has-29-valedictorians/

Or have no valedictorians....

http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/No-Valedictorians-at-Bay-Co-Graduations--261031281.html

Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Steingar on June 03, 2016, 10:47:08 AM
The National Honor Society refused to induct my sister, who was valedictorian of her class, because she was Jewish.  Never had any use for them after that.  I wasn't class valedictorian, but I was in the top five.  I suspect I'd have been the valedictorian has I given a rats ass.  And even had I been, I'd not have considered wearing some sort of pin because of it.
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: JeffDG on June 03, 2016, 11:55:00 AM
The National Honor Society refused to induct my sister, who was valedictorian of her class, because she was Jewish.  Never had any use for them after that.  I wasn't class valedictorian, but I was in the top five.  I suspect I'd have been the valedictorian has I given a rats ass.  And even had I been, I'd not have considered wearing some sort of pin because of it.
Well, graduating high school outside of the National Honor Society's jurisdiction meant that I was never offered the opportunity.  As the top in my class in high school, I was however awarded the Governor General's Bronze Medal, and had to make a speech at my graduation ceremony.


I remember the speech mainly because I had joked to my mom that I'd write it the night before.  She did not take kindly to that notion, and made me write it a couple weeks out.  Then, the day before at rehearsal I decided the speech was a load of crap and threw it in the garbage and wrote a new one the night before the ceremony, just as I had predicted!
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on June 03, 2016, 12:23:54 PM
Spoken like a bitter failure, who hated the other kids for succeeding. Good socialist point of view.
It's so much better to stay low and avoid excelling because the slackers might feel jealous and take it on you and all...

another possibility:  someone in the NHS who didn't get any respect from the other kids
Title: Re: HS Grads: Leave Your National Honor Society Pin At Home
Post by: Steingar on June 03, 2016, 01:36:52 PM
Well, graduating high school outside of the National Honor Society's jurisdiction meant that I was never offered the opportunity.  As the top in my class in high school, I was however awarded the Governor General's Bronze Medal, and had to make a speech at my graduation ceremony.

I had to give a speech too.  Don't recall it at all, but I bet it was funny.