Against the Law to Offend Underachievers?
I stumbled across this artile on Fox News and found it to be profoundly disturbing.
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"Public schools in Nashville have stopped posting honor rolls because to do so might make underachievers feel bad.
After a couple of parents complained that their children might be ridiculed for not making the list, lawyers for the school district said releasing the honor rolls might violate privacy laws.
In an apparent snowball effect, some schools have since put a stop to academic pep rallies and decided not to hang exemplary work in the hallways for fear of embarrassing even more underachievers. There’s even talk to canceling spelling bees."
Original Article from Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/2004/schools/.../a02-45601.htm
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The controversy also revolves around laws protecting an individual's privacy. The thought process is that if you post names of "Honor Roll" students, then you are by default violating the privacy rights of individuals that did not make the "Honor Roll," by simple elemination analysis, determining who the "Non-Honor Roll" students are.
Once the "Junk Lawyers" get hold of this and ram it's concept down our collective throughts by driving a suit through our Liberal court systems; we could concieveably see a ban on any "Club" where you have to display a "talent," for the lack of a better work, in order to validate your acceptanance into the Club in question. This could easily be extend to sports in schools, because God forbid that you post the names of who made the football team, where the students that have not achieved a high enough physical condition, or do not have a natural enough ability, to make the football team, may feel "offended."
What a bunch of Malarkey! GRRRrrrrrrrrr.
