If you look at the FranklinNOW website on the right hand side you will see:
FranklinNOW.com joins parents and teachers in saluting the outstanding students who are listed on the honor rolls of our local schools. Go to honor rolls
If you follow this link you will see a FranklinNOW web page with:
Franklin Honor Rolls
FranklinNOW.com joins parents and teacher in congratulating honor local students who have made the honor roll.
To see which students made the honor roll in the most recent grading period, click on the link below. If don't see your school listed here, it's because that school has not yet sent us a recent honor roll.
We encourage all Franklin private and public schools to email their honor rolls to mailto:honors@mycommunitynow.com
Click on one of the links below to see the latest honor roll from your school.
If you notice Franklin High School is not listed on this page.
Nor was second semester of 2007 at the end of the 2007 - 2007 School Year.
From what I understand, the responsibility of getting this information to the press is that of the guidance staff at Franklin High School and they have only sent it to the Franklin Citizen publication as stated below on the FHS web site.
If you go to the FPS - Franklin High School website you will find:
Honor Roll
Franklin High School submits the Honor Roll each quarter to the community newspaper, the Franklin Citizen, for publication.
Confused - I certainly am, as all the Franklin High School sporting events, school plays and other FPS activities seem to be in the FranklinNOW on line publication. There is no web site for the Franklin Citizen and I am not even sure I could tell you how to subscribe.
Here is a sample of a few articles currently featured on FranklinNOW:
NOW photographer Peter Zuzga captured the action during the state swimming meet in Madison. Check out his best shots in his Division 1 slide show and his Division 2 slide show.
NOW Photographer Peter Zuzga was at the opening day of the state wrestling tournament, and you can see his best photos in his slide show.
What is wrong with this picture, why doesn't Franklin High guidance staff or the Franklin Public School district make it a point to make sure we say it in print that we are proud of our Honor Students not only at the High School level but at the Middle School grades also.
How much work would it take to send this information to both the Franklin Citizen and the FranklinNOW publications?
Does it matter or am I just Wagging the Dog?
UPDATE - Monday March 3, 2008
I have been contacted by two sources, one Beth Mantoan an Administrative Assistant at St. Martin of Tours Grade School and Tanya Ruder the Communications Specialist for FPS. Both have relayed to me the difficulty they have had in submitting Honor Rolls to the FranklinNOW since Marquette University stopped the sponsorship of Honor Rolls.
The honors@mycommunitynow.com. listed on the CommunityNOW website seems to be an unmonitored e-mail address.
Tanya Ruder has taken over the task of getting the Honor Rolls published for FPS and has contacted the reporting staff at FranklinNOW directly.
Thanks to the both of you setting things straight with a commitment to the students’ academic excellence.
UPDATE - Monday March 4, 2008
I have been contacted by Mark Mally the editor of CommunityNOW websites. He informs me:
Franklin honor rolls will start appearing on FranklinNOW.com by mid-March. We had to make some changes in the way we process honor rolls and that resulted in a delay in getting them online. The editors of FranklinNOW.com will be in contact with Franklin school officials to make sure that honor rolls get posted online as soon as they are available. Because of space constraints, honor rolls are no longer published in the newspaper.
Mark Maley
NOW Online Editor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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