Barrington Middle School will no longer be posting honor roll reports. School principal Andrew Anderson told parents in a newsletter "we will no longer be posting honor roll to emphasize the learning process and the application of skills and content, not the grade. We are purposefully limiting the unnecessary added stress placed on the students." One parent told ABC 6 "they're just learning to be themselves. If you put labels on them, they're gonna believe those labels. The school followed up with "the traditional honor role does not acknowledge the whole student and is not an effective measure or representation of success." Oh, spare me. You telling me Little Johnny or Joanne's development will be stymied when they don't see their name on an honor roll? Why punish students who are at the head of the class? I never came within a zip code of making an honor role in middle and high school and I didn't hide in the basement in shame. This is as lame as giving kids certificates of participation for sporting events instead of trophies to winner and a heart handshake to the loser. Isn't best for kids to learn at the earliest age possible what it's like in the real world?