Every year, the school have an evening of presenting Achievement Awards to students in year 7 - 11, two students for each subject.
DS is profoundly dyslexic and struggles academically. But tries hard and is well behaved. In year 7 he won an award for the SEN department. I had mixed feelings about this but he seemed happy enough. In year 8, he won an award for PSHE. He has no idea why he won this award and was genuinely confused by it. He felt it wasn't really deserved and that his name had got picked out of a hat.
Now in year 9 and he has been nominated again. I am obviously pleased, always good news. DS wasn't over excited - to be fair, it's a loooong evening, in an extremely hot hall, watching people walk on/off stage. We won't know what the award is for until we get there and are presented with a list as we walk in.
DS has no idea what the award is for, it's usually the super brainy kids who get the awards. He suspects it's for textiles. There has been a constant change of teachers for this subject and they've barely done any proper work. But they have to give an award to someone and DS is an easy target because he is well behaved and school like to encourage him because of his SEN as he has had self esteem issues regarding this.
AIBU to turn up on the evening, check out the list of awards, and if DS has been nominated for textiles then just head home again? DS says if it's for textiles it is completely meaningless.