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If that’s what’s going on then it’s a little overblown, IMO. I went to Stuy and I think they just posted the list of National Merit Scholarships on a bulletin b
by lambdasquirrel 4y ago
If that’s what’s going on then it’s a little overblown, IMO. I went to Stuy and I think they just posted the list of National Merit Scholarships on a bulletin board somewhere, and yeah we all gawked to see who got it, but then it was just back to the grind. It’s not like it was some ace-in-hole that could make or break your admission.
- johnnyo 4y agoYeah, if you drill down into the actual sources, that appears to be what happened. The school got a stack of certificates. They sat on the principals desk for a while, then they sat with the guidance counselor or homeroom teachers before being passed out. The parent is basically complaining because: 1. They didn’t notify the parents via email. 2. They didn’t find out in time to put in on an college early admission application. 3. The school didn’t make a big deal of handing out the awards in an assembly or similar. This sounds more like a complaint from an overbearing helicopter parent than any sort of issue that HN would care about.
- matthewdgreen 4y ago>1. They didn’t notify the parents via email. "One former student said he learned he had won the award through a random email from the school to a school-district email account that students rarely check; the principal neither told his parents nor made a public announcement."
- johnnyo 4y agoYup, their complaint is that they wanted a separate email to *parents*. Its kind of ridiculously petty when you see what the actual complaint is here. I have a lot of sympathy for school administrators and school board members. They deal with this sort of stuff from parents all the time.