"My Child is an Honor Student at......"

[Caradana]

Where I'm from, the parental badge of honor isn't the "My Child is an Honor Student At ..." sticker - I actually very rarely see those - but it's the "College Name" sticker on the rear window.

Pull into any high school parking lot in NY, NJ, CT, anyplace where four-year schools are the norm rather than the exception - and you'll see what I mean. As an extreme on this, there's always the sweet, PTA-active Irish Catholic mom with engineer husband and five kids, driving a Volvo station wagon with the back window plastered: "Notre Dame" "Boston College" "Villanova" and there's space intentionally left for kids #4 and #5.

My old roommate Eileen went to Penn - her older sister went to Yale, her younger sister, GW. They plastered up their Camry. Her mother laughed, it was the crappiest car, and it almost seemed to negatively advertise the schools. "Hey, all those great degrees and the painted bumper is falling off their crappy Camry."

I currently have a Pton sticker stuck to the back of my 2000 Neon. I'm pretty sure I am negatively advertising.

Some colleges are now sending out the car stickers with the acceptance packets, so you can run right outside and slap it on there the day you get in! Haaaaaaaaa

 

[BeckyEsq]

They are a joke, largely due to grade inflation.

 

[Mimi Q]

My kids have always been honor roll students and they've always given out these bumper stickers in middle school and I've always hate them! If any of my kids really wanted me to put the sticker on my car, I would have. Truth be told, none of my kids ever wanted the sticker on our cars. If they thought for a second that I might put it on a car, it would be motivation for them NOT to make honor roll again!

ITA, my DD would be so embarassed if I put one of those bumper stickers on my car.

 

[CEDmom]

Where I'm from, the parental badge of honor isn't the "My Child is an Honor Student At ..." sticker - I actually very rarely see those - but it's the "College Name" sticker on the rear window.

Pull into any high school parking lot in NY, NJ, CT, anyplace where four-year schools are the norm rather than the exception - and you'll see what I mean. As an extreme on this, there's always the sweet, PTA-active Irish Catholic mom with engineer husband and five kids, driving a Volvo station wagon with the back window plastered: "Notre Dame" "Boston College" "Villanova" and there's space intentionally left for kids #4 and #5.

My old roommate Eileen went to Penn - her older sister went to Yale, her younger sister, GW. They plastered up their Camry. Her mother laughed, it was the crappiest car, and it almost seemed to negatively advertise the schools. "Hey, all those great degrees and the painted bumper is falling off their crappy Camry."

I currently have a Pton sticker stuck to the back of my 2000 Neon. I'm pretty sure I am negatively advertising.

Some colleges are now sending out the car stickers with the acceptance packets, so you can run right outside and slap it on there the day you get in! Haaaaaaaaa

You're so right about this. My mom's station wagon had decals from all of our colleges and my prep school. She was really upset when she finally traded the car in. We don't have anything on our cars now but once DD starts prep school I'm sure will be adding one. But, for what's it worth I don't like those honor roll stickers and would never put one on my car.

 

[snoopy]

I guess I'm in the minority, we proudly display our "honor roll student" bumper stickers, and my kids don't think they are a joke.

I always wonder about the people who display "my kid beat up your honor roll kid" bumper stickers.......certainly not the message we'd want to send to our kids, joke or no joke.

BTW, nice to see you again, Aunt Polly. How was your trip to Rome?

 

[auntpolly]

Thanks for asking, Snoopy! It was a great trip! I wasn't in Rome for much of the time but I did have a chance to see our new Pope!

 

[CEDmom]

I guess I'm in the minority, we proudly display our "honor roll student" bumper stickers, and my kids don't think they are a joke.

I always wonder about the people who display "my kid beat up your honor roll kid" bumper stickers.......certainly not the message we'd want to send to our kids, joke or no joke.

BTW, nice to see you again, Aunt Polly. How was your trip to Rome?

I don't like those "my kid beat up your honor roll kid" bumper stickers either. IMO they're in really poor taste. In general, I don't like any bumper stickers but will make an exception for a school decal. These go on windows and hold up much better than bumper stickers. I honestly don't even know if our district does the stickers or not since DD isn't even in public school yet. However, if she were to get one I'd let her put it where she wanted as long as it's not my car.

 

[Dodie]

We have a sticker, but have never put it on the car. It says...

My German Shepherd is smarter than your honor student.

 

[wdwgirl03]

The schools I went to don't give those out. Even if they did, I wouldn't let my parents put them on. I can't stand being bragged about. But I wouldn't have to worry about that anyway, because my mom doesn't like them.

 

[goofygirl]

I agree with all of you! They are dumb!!

Do the people who put those stickers on their cars REALLY believe that those who read them will think, "Hey WOW!!! Their kid is an honor student! I am soooo impressed!"

That's never happening.

 

[Beauty]

Another mom with an Honor Student checking in and no way would I put that silly sticker on my car, John-Cole would kill me!!!!!!

I think they are a joke!

 

[snoopy]

I agree with all of you! They are dumb!!

Do the people who put those stickers on their cars REALLY believe that those who read them will think, "Hey WOW!!! Their kid is an honor student! I am soooo impressed!"

That's never happening.

I actually never give a thought as to what you or anyone else thinks of my bumper sticker, or my kid, GG...... I display the "my kid is an honor roll student" stickers to show my kids how proud I am of their accomplishments.

 

[auntpolly]

Actually I don't think the concept is so bad. It's just that so many schools give them out like candy. The one near us used to and it just got to mean nothing. I really didn't get the big uproar when they discontinued them.

If it was an actual honor and everyone knew that only the top 10% or whatever got them, they'd seem a little more cool. But to give them to every kid that scrapes together a couple of "A"s (which everone does here because of grade inflation), then it loses it's effect.

 

[Mandabella]

The schools I went to don't give those out. Even if they did, I wouldn't let my parents put them on. I can't stand being bragged about. But I wouldn't have to worry about that anyway, because my mom doesn't like them.

Same here.

If any of my schools were giving these out, I wasn't aware of it. I was definitely an honor student from 6th grade through 12th grade. I even got inducted into National Honor Society in High School. My parents never received this bumper sticker. They wouldn't have put it on anyhow since they hate bumper stickers.

 

[Buckalew11]

Our school doesn't do them and I don't have one of our schools bumper stickers on either. 1) I don't do bumper stickers and 2) Can't share my other reason--I'm too embarrassed.
I do have a M. College decal in my back window. Hunter dreams of attending college there. So what if she's just 11yo? No, really DH graduated from there but I'm sure Hunter thinks it is "hers".

I do have a WDW decal on my side window. It is Goofy saying "I"m Goofy. What's your excuse?" People LOVE that thing...

 

[Deb & Bill]

I guess I'm in the minority, we proudly display our "honor roll student" bumper stickers, and my kids don't think they are a joke.

I always wonder about the people who display "my kid beat up your honor roll kid" bumper stickers.......certainly not the message we'd want to send to our kids, joke or no joke...

I'm with you on this one, Snoopy. I think parents have a right to be proud of their son or daughter who is doing well academically. You see so many kids who excell in athletics. They get all the athletic scholarships for college and then flunk out the next year after they spend all year playing basketball or football.

I worry about those people who have such a low esteem that they have to resort to violence about kids who are smart. And, no, your German Shepard is not smarter than MY honor student. He's a good kid who does very well in school. You just have a dumb dog.

 

[Kallison]

I think 99.9% of most middle school students would die of embarrassment if their parents had one of these on their car. We get our name in the paper and a certificate every marking period, that is sufficient for me.

 

[KrnB]

I would have been absolutely mortified if my parents had ever put one of those stupid stickers on their car - especially when I was in middle school because there's nothing that a middle school aged kid dreads more than to be singled out from everyone else. And kids that age are always embarrassed to be around their parents.

I would have hid below the windows if I would have had to ride in a car with that on the back.

I certainly didn't need something like that to know my parents were proud of me either, whether it was for my grades (yep, I was an honor student) or anything else I did. They told me that to my face all the time.

Can you tell I'm not a big fan of them?

 

[DisneyDotty]

I want a bumper sticker that says "I hate bumper stickers."