I can’t think of any 7-year-old kid who wouldn’t be pleased if mom, in the kid’s honor, placed a semi-permanent badge of pride in a public place. I’ll grant you that the high-school ones are silly. But most of the “My kid is on the Honor Roll at MLK School” stickers I’ve seen have been for elementary schools. YMMV.
Isn’t it a joke representing a point of view? I mean, I’ve heard the anti-AGW argument that warming is a natural process, but I’d never heard global warming protests lampooned by analogizing their efforts with trying to stop continental drift. It was just an interesting rhetorical tactic I hadn’t yet heard. I’m not saying it made me change my mind – it just made me think, “huh. I’ve never thought of their argument like that.”
In the same field as “honor student” stickers…I always feel bad for the kids whose parents display those “my child is a terrific kid” stickers they give out to the ones who don’t make the honor roll. I guess it’s meant to boost the child’s self esteem, but it just seems to be a big advertisement for the lack of honor roll status.
