Concerned that an annual honors night for students is too “exclusive,” officials at a Rhode Island school have decided to scrap the event.

An email sent out to parents of students at Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich said students who would normally be honored at the spring event would instead be recognized during team-based ceremonies and graduation, the East Greenwich Patch reports.

“This will afford us the opportunity to celebrate the individual and collective successes of all students and their effort, progress and excellence,” said the email sent out over the weekend, which was signed by Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistant Principal Dan Seger.

The email added that "Members of the school community have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night.”

Kaitlyn Kosloski, an eighth-grader at the school, expressed disappointment that the night was canceled.

“That made me [want to] work harder and a lot of other people work harder, so just the fact you can’t work toward it anymore then there is no goal,” she told ABC 6.

Ohio teachers' union, district clash over release of names of teachers who crossed picket line

An Ohio teachers union is suing the school district in a Cleveland suburb for the names, addresses and phone numbers of hundreds of teachers who crossed the picket line during an acrimonious strike last year.

During the eight-week-long strike in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville more than a year ago, district officials brought in 372 substitute teachers to keep the classrooms open. When the subs crossed the picket line, there were the usual angry words and accusations. But when the strike ended, Cleveland Teachers Union Local 279, which represented the striking teachers, filed a Freedom of Information request for the names and addresses of all the substitute teachers.

The district refused, citing safety concerns for the substitute teachers, but a court ruled in favor of the union. Now the case will be heard by the Buckeye State's Supreme Court, and some advocates of the open records law say the court must make the district comply.

"The picketers even yelled obscenities at a candidate who walked into the building with her two young children."
- Legal brief filed by school district

"Courts must set a high bar of evidentiary proof before undermining the Ohio open records law," Dennis Hetzel, executive director of Ohio Coalition for Open Government, told FoxNews.com.