Same.

I remember having to be pulled out of my 'special needs' class to go to the auditorium for a small celebration recognizing the students who has scored highest on the standardized reading comprehension exams.

I won a pizza party for my english class because I had the highest score of any student in the entire middle school.

The two eighth grade honors classes had been competing to see which of them would get it.

They were pissed to loose it to the sixth grade remedial english class.

That was about the time I started to lose respect for the US school system.