Totally not based off of Philospher's Stone...
Your child attends a school with multiple tracks. 3-5. Red, Yellow, Blue, etc. Along with determining what class schedule your child will have, the school promotes team spirit for each individual track. This includes awarding whichever track has the best grades and highest scores for extra-curriculum activities, among other school related function, with a prestige every year.
Your child's track is the winner this year. Go you! There is a dinner function to celebrate like usual. Then, at the dinner party the Principal announces that due to a select few student's heroic activities, completely unrelated to school, THEIR track will be awarded the prestige instead.
The students were very heroic (pulled puppies out of a burning building or something), but still there is another award available the school could present to the select students, celebrating this, while still allowing the original track their prestige.
Do you complain to the principal? Is it fair to the students that were expecting to celebrate their own victory to have it taken away from them at the last minute due to things not technically relevant to the prestige? Should the heroic students have gotten personalized rewards instead?
Your child's track is the winner this year. Go you! There is a dinner function to celebrate like usual. Then, at the dinner party the Principal announces that due to a select few student's heroic activities, completely unrelated to school, THEIR track will be awarded the prestige instead.
The students were very heroic (pulled puppies out of a burning building or something), but still there is another award available the school could present to the select students, celebrating this, while still allowing the original track their prestige.
Do you complain to the principal? Is it fair to the students that were expecting to celebrate their own victory to have it taken away from them at the last minute due to things not technically relevant to the prestige? Should the heroic students have gotten personalized rewards instead?