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Class Rank Eliminated for District 207
By 5-2 vote, Maine Township High School District 207 school board ends ranking for students.
Maine Township High School District 207 board members Margaret McGrath and Joanna Braam at the June 7 school board meeting, where board members voted 6-0 to eliminate class rank from most transcripts.
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District 207 students will no longer have the ability to see how they rank among their peers, as reported by Triblocal.
On Monday, the Maine Township High School District 207 school board voted 5-2 to eliminate the class ranking system in 2013.
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Last summer, by a 6-0 vote, the board eliminated class rank from transcripts and other documents, unless students or their parents decide to have it listed.
During that time the move came at the suggestion of Barbara Dill-Varga, the assistant superintendent for curriculum.
Dill-Varga estimated that nationally, at least half of all high schools had stopped listing class ranks on student transcripts. In the Chicago suburbs, New Trier High School District 203, Stevenson High School District 125, and Glenbrook High School District 225 have already made the move.
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Juvenal
1:04 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Helen: Dash... this is the third time this year you've been sent to the office. We need to find a better outlet. A more... constructive outlet.
Dash: Maybe I could, if you'd let me go out for sports.
Helen: Honey, you know why we can't do that.
Dash: But I promise I'll slow up. I'll only be the best by a tiny bit.
Helen: Dashiell Robert Parr, you are an incredibly competitive boy, and a bit of a show-off. The last thing you need is temptation.
Dash: You always say 'Do your best', but you don't really mean it. Why can't I do the best that I can do?
Helen: Right now, honey, the world just wants us to fit in, and to fit in, we gotta be like everyone else.
Dash: But Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of, our powers made us special.
Helen: Everyone's special, Dash.
Dash: [muttering] Which is another way of saying no one is.