Schools Banish Honor Rolls

The Associated Press reports that schools in Nashville, Tennessee have stopped posting honor rolls, and are considering banning the posting of good work in the hallways. Other targeted activities include academic honor rolls and spelling bees.

What a sad commentary on a society when any celebration of excellence is banned to avoid offending the less-than-excellent. How will children ever learn to strive for excellence if we never acknowledge its achievement, or even its existence? What will become of them as adults if all they ever aspire to is mediocrity? We have to wrest control of education in this country away from unions and lawyers, or we are doomed.