Last year they were giving kids military rankings based on how they were progressing with state test milestones. Of course, there was a strong socio-ecomnomic relationship. I put a stop to it.
I’ve never heard of anything like that out here — do they do it as a cute way to relate to the kids, since there are probably a lot more kids from military families in SD than in NJ (where I grew up)? I personally don’t think that the military ranking system is inappropriate in itself, but the fact that test results were made “public” is a bit inappropriate.
Out of curiosity, do they “track” in SD-area public schools? i.e. are there tests for admission to “honors”, AP, or IB classes?
