Ever since my first round of hardcore assigned deviance in my sociology class, I have become something of a deviant addict. Here is where I will hence name one particularly intriguing, amusing or effective act of deviance weekly, approximately the same time every week. Without further ado, here is the first installment of deviance.
Magna Cum Snowflakes:
My school holds honors assemblies for different grade levels every quarter in order to recognize those who do spectacularly well in school. The awards are broken up into 3 groups- Cum Laude is 90-95 weighted average and you get a $1 credit in the school bookstore, Suma Cum Laude is 95-100 average and you get a $3.75 lunch credit in the cafeteria. For those with over 100% weighted average, the Magna Cum Laude award and $5 credit in the Cougar cafe is reserved. Theoretically, these awards are designed to applaud those who excel in school and motivate those who do not. In actuality, the walk across the stage to receive said award is embarassing, and those who do not receive the awards feel apathetic or crappy.
Having noted this throughout four years of high school, several friends and I decided to boycott the ceremony by choosing to not receive our awards when called. Unfortunately, the first person in our boycott chain alphabetically speaking has flaming red hair and sat in the front of the auditorium. Upon not going on stage, he received a detention, and the chain kind of broke from there.
So instead, we chose to take our certificates and promptly make paper snowflakes out of them, decorating the hallways with our civil disobedience.
It probably would have gone better if we did this a month ago.
Oh well.
