{"id":13937,"date":"2014-05-21T08:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13937"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:09:47","slug":"school-cancels-honors-night-for-being-too-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13937","title":{"rendered":"School cancels honors night for being &#8216;too exclusive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13938\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13938\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cole-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Archie R. Cole Middle School\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cole-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cole.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archie R. Cole Middle School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Citing concerns about the &#8220;exclusive nature&#8221; of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, students who would normally be recognized at the annual spring tradition will be honored during team-based recognition ceremonies and graduation.<\/p>\n<p>The notice was sent to parents over the weekend in an e-mail signed by School Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistant Principal Dan Seger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members of the school community have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night,&#8221; the email stated.<\/p>\n<p>By having the recognition ceremonies during team-based ceremonies, it will &#8220;afford us the opportunity to celebrate the individual and collective success of all students and their effort, progress and excellence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Cole varsity athletes will get medals and trophies at an after school ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>One parent told ABC6 that he&#8217;s not happy with the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow else are they suppose to learn coping skills, not just based on success, but relative failure, it might not be failure, but understand what it takes to achieve high levels,\u201d said parent Joe Kosloski.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0eastgreenwich.patch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing concerns about the &#8220;exclusive nature&#8221; of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition. Instead, students who would normally be recognized at the annual spring tradition will be honored during team-based recognition ceremonies and graduation. The notice was sent to parents over the weekend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;School cancels honors night for being &#8216;too exclusive&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3928,8951,1638],"class_list":["post-13937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-equality","tag-honors-night","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cole.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13939,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions\/13939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}