Selwyn Duke
Leftists cancel school honors night -- too "exclusive"
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By Selwyn Duke
May 24, 2014

It's increasingly the case in America that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. A case in point is Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Writes East Greenwich Patch:
    Citing concerns about the "exclusive nature" 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 in an e-mail signed by School Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistant Principal Dan Seger.
Certainly, we must battle feelings-bruising exclusivity. Thus do I have a question: Will Principal Meyer and Assistant Principal Seger now also lobby to eliminate the position of "principal" or at least for the elimination of the term? After all, as Dictionary.com informs, the word means, "1.first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost." And the Online Etymology Dictionary states, "c.1300, 'main, principal, chief, dominant, most important;' also 'great, large,' from Old French principal 'main, most important,' of persons, 'princely, high-ranking' (11c.), from Latin principalis 'first in importance; original, primitive,' from princeps (see prince)."

That sounds awfully excusive to me. Note that "Princeps" was an official title of Roman Emperors that translated into "First Citizen." And I can't imagine that these egalitarian educators could tolerate such anti-egalitarian positions and titles. Or do I have it wrong?

Is it that refusal to recognize achievement is only to be applied to other people's achievement?

This much reminds me of Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren, now senator from Taxachusetts. She not only supported affirmative action while saying nothing about the remarkably un-diverse faculty she was part of at Harvard Law School, but then – despite being white enough for two people – claimed Cherokee heritage, presumably to benefit from the Affirmative Action Daily Double: being female and minority. (Give her credit, though, as she could have gone for the Trifecta and claimed lesbian status, too.)

So I guess it's poor blue-collar guys, such as the firemen in New Haven, Connecticut, who have to maintain Warren's principles. Meanwhile, education's other elitists will maintain their principals and whatever other exclusiveness benefits them. As with the Marxists in the former USSR, North Korea and elsewhere – who had/ have the best residences, cars, vacations and other free-market fruits – leftist policies are for the little people.

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