Or, the headline could be “Huge Vajay-jay Liberals Will Never Understand Excellence.”

Citing concerns about the “exclusive nature” of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition.

Instead, students who would normally be recognized at the annual spring tradition will be honored during team-based recognition ceremonies and graduation.

Just one more liberal pocket Dejah.  No big deal right?  Some middle of the road middle school with part time flacks trying to get full time money.  No big deal right?

Dear Cole Families,

We would like to take this opportunity to notify you of a change to our annual spring events at Cole. Honors Night has been a longstanding tradition in our community — one that was created in the Cole Junior High School era. Members of the school community have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night. Therefore, we have made the collective decision to recognize students during team- based recognition ceremonies and graduation. This will afford us the opportunity to celebrate the individual and collective successes of all students and their effort, progress, and excellence.

Additionally, our Cole varsity athletes will receive their medals and trophies at an after school ceremony.

Best wishes for a nice weekend.

Kindest regards,

Alexis Meyer and Dan Seger

“Members of the school community have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night” translated means “Parents of weed smoking underachievers who will be getting top flight entry level positions in the food services or hospitality industry after summer school and they don’t want their little special snowflakes to feel bad when they get promoted to “fries.””

So rocket scientists from Cole Middle School, I have a question for you.

How many MVP’s did the NBA, the NFL and Major League Baseball give out last year?  How many teams won the SuperBowl?  How many National Spelling Bee champions were there?  Any one of your braintrusts know how many Oscars and Emmys were given out for each category this year?

I do.  ONE…

You know what else, those are all pretty exclusive and special things that have to be worked at and sacrificed for in order to get.  There are lots of hours working and toiling and practicing and repeating in order to be good at something.  Ask Cal Ripkin, LeBron James, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Kellen Moore, Margaret Thatcher, Marcus Luttrell, Mitt Romney or Bill Gates how hard they had to work to get where they are now.  If you don’t know who those people are that I just mentioned, get your Google on and see what I mean.

Newsflash kids: You will fail in life more times than you succeed. You will fall short, you will not make the grade and you will not get what you want. Others will not believe in you. They don’t hand out participation trophies in the real world. Everyone doesn’t get to be super dee duper.

Here’s the thing about that.  Liberals do not believe in excellence.  They will tell you they do, but like all of the other things they say, it is a lie.  They believe in mediocrity.  They believe that if someone is up, then someone else must be down.  Theirs is a zero sum game of haves and have nots; and the have nots cannot be made to feel bad because they are not a “have.”  It is couched in their language of “level playing field” and “equal outcomes.”

This is exactly the kind of thinking that makes successful men and women want to stop the engine of the world and hop on the next train to Galt’s Gulch.

Cole Middle School administrators; you are the epitomy of mediocrity and by not allowing this special night to honor these kids that spent their time studying and working instead of sitting in front of an Xbox, you have shown the failure of liberal ideology.  You have failed to teach them the lesson of how to be gracious in honoring those who have excelled and the most important lesson of all; how to deal with failure and falling short.

The parents were predictably upset.

“How else are they suppose to learn coping skills, not just based on success, but relative failure, it might not be failure, but understand what it takes to achieve high levels,” said parent Joe Kosloski.

But evidently, in what could be called an expected turn of events, there was enough parent outrage that the jelly-spined decision makers waffled under and reversed themselves.

 “Our original communication would have benefited from more clarity regarding the change in the format for honoring student excellence,” Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistance Principal Dan Seger said in a statement. “We are exceedingly proud of the outstanding achievements of Cole students and obviously had no intention of failing to acknowledge and celebrate exemplary student accomplishment in its many forms.”

What would you like to have cleared up exactly?  That you wanted more underachieving special snowflakes to feel better about their non-accomplishments by not individually honoring those that actually earned their honors?  The only reason this happened is that parents stood up to the school and rightly pointed out that there are many lessons to be taught here.  The parents know that not everyone gets to be a Navy SEAL, a starting quarterback, win an Oscar, or hit a home run, so when anyone gets the chance to get an ovation, a well deserved award or recognition for their work, it should be honored, recognized and publicized.

This is the blueprint for how to push the participation trophy mentality off the cliff and into the dumpster of terrible ideas.

Enjoy your night kids.  You earned it.