A story like this strikes me as mean-spirited. The gist is there is this school that has too many honor societies, membership in which is supposed to be exclusive. It has attracted the attention of the educational lobby groups. "This cheapens the currency," "said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonprofit educational policy group in Washington. "Once everyone's wearing rhinestones, you might not notice someone wearing diamonds." The idea that some club designed to recognize achievement must inherently be exclusive seems wrongheaded to me. Achievement is not a property of the elite; it is a property of the empowered.
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