Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Student Recognition topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
John Glenn Middle School recommends two-track honor-roll system: academic and tenacity lists
Summary
John Glenn Middle School presented a recommendation to reintroduce honor-roll recognition via two lists — a 90%-or-above academic achievement list and a tenacity list for quarter-over-quarter improvement (with a 70% floor) — and proposed piloting both approaches; committee discussion focused on criteria, averages versus per-class thresholds, publication and opt-outs.
John Glenn Middle School administrators and school-council members presented their proposal to reinstate an honor-roll-style recognition system for grades 6–8 during the school committee meeting on May 28.
Principal Vince Clark summarized a survey and follow-up work by the school’s MSPA and DLLT. The research showed majority support for recognition: roughly 58% of students and 67% of parents supported some form of recognition. The DLLT recommended two complementary lists: an "academic achievement" list (90% or above in every subject, awarded quarterly) and a "tenacity" list that recognizes students who improve by at least one point in one subject compared with the previous quarter while maintaining a 70% average in other classes.
Committee members questioned the mechanics: whether the metric should be an across-the-board 90 in every class or an average, how overlap between the two lists would be handled, privacy and opt-out choices for public recognition, and how the lists would be calculated given that middle schools do not compute a formal GPA. Principal Clark said the tenacity list would be piloted for quarters 2–4 (not Q1), that the district's information systems can calculate lists without manual effort, and that families would be allowed to opt out of public recognition.
The committee treated the item as a first read; the handbook changes that would enact the policy will return for a formal vote. Members asked the JGMS team to provide intersectional overlap data (how many students would appear on both lists) and to clarify calculation methods before final approval.
