You don't really need to do 3 or 4 hours of homework a night to be on the honor roll, you just need to actually keep up.
Do I care about the awards ceremony stuff, nope in the grand scheme of things as long as the actual grading isn't being effective, whatever. The minute they drop grads in favor of an everybody is special system then I might lose my nut.
On the other hand as these kids get into the grades 10,11,12 where the marks are really counting towards university then you have to find incentive.
My sisters boy is really struggling now and he might not make university because he futzed around for the last three years and now he's in panic mode in his last year, but that's more on the parents and the teachers then anything else of not letting him know how serious this is earlier.
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