[Jordan-117]

A local PTA has a "parent of the month" award.

One month, a vain, vindictive, mentally unstable, and heavily armed parent who tirelessly lobbied for the award and lost begins physically threatening and menacing their neighbors, declaring that if they won't be recognized as the best parent, then by god they'll just take what they're owed until they feel they've gotten what is "psychologically needed for success."

In that scenario, I don't think focusing on reform of the office politics and favoritism of the PTA award is the most productive use of time.

[andsoitis]

What's the point of the Parent of the Month award?

[A_D_E_P_T]

This analogy would work if 2025 were an isolated incident. But the award has been a joke for a very long time, if not actively harmful, and recent events make such a mockery of its founding premises that it's simply too much to bear. What if the "parent of the month" award were perpetually mired in controversy? I think it would be fair to reconsider the thing.

[lovich]

How is it actively harmful?

If I don’t get what I want from an event can I just make it controversial by yelling all the time to close it down?

You’re arguing that everyone should just give up to muggers