Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

Chookie <ehrebeniuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I'm sorry:  could you explain what an honor roll is again and what sort
of 
>privileges it gives you?  I tried to look it up via Google Groups but
couldn't 
>find out, though I'm sure I've asked before!
>
>The only Honour Rolls in our schools list the school captains, s****ts
captains 
>and duxes.  In older schools, one may see the names of former students
who 
>have served in war.

What is a school captain?  What is a dux?  Kind of like a
vice-captain?

I don't think we have the equivalent of school captains, although the
high school cl***** will elect class officers (president, secretary,
treasurer).  But those are mostly connected with putting on proms and
a class gift to the school and stuff like that.  There's nothing that
I remember like that for elementary school.

A high school team captains might be a BMOC if they play on a popular
s****ts team, and might be recognized in the yearbook.  But none of
those people get privileges although when dd#3 was in HS, she got to
go to the 'senior courtyard' during lunch [even though she absolutely
refused to eat anything at lunch in school].

I think we would tend to call a list of people who have served (or
died) in the military as a Roll of Honor.  

Around here, the Honor Roll is kind of an attempt to recognize
academic achievement - maybe to balance the emphasis on s****ts.  The
only privilege would be that they publish the names in the local paper
every semester.   In HS, people who have a high GPA and are generally
considered (by school staff) to be of good character can belong to the
National Honor Society.