Education Week devoted a full page to a commentary that criticized parents who displayed "My Child is an Honor Student At..." bumper stickers, and lauded other parents who had responded with stickers declaring "My Kid Beat Up Your Honor Student." That slogan, declared Mark Mlawer, executive director of the Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education, "helped clarify the issue" by expressing the "resentment at the unfairness of the honor roll and at those who flaunt their child's academic feats."

"Both the educational practice of maintaining an honor roll and the parental practice of public proclamations of this status," he writes, "create and reinforce a certain specific of unfairness, one which necessarily causes resentment."

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