Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 24, 2013
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Transcript:
Pig: Rat! Rat! I won a trophy in my ping pong league!! Rat: For what? Winning the whole league? Pig: 'Best participation by someone in our league who can breathe and has participated.' Rat: And they say winning awards doesn't mean what it used to. Pig: Oh, I didn't win.. I was seventh runner-up.
If you have a kid or two, and a car… undoubtedly the car has a “My child is an honor student at ______ school” bumper sticker. Every parent gets one unless their kid is a juvenile delinquent. They kinda’ lose their meaning when everybody has one.
But we certainly can’t let the little ones feel inferior and have lowered self-esteem, now can we? Liberal education = where every student is the same, and they’re all above average. Yuck!