And we LIKED IT that way!
-PJ
Posted on 06/12/2015 12:58:20 PM PDT by Zakeet
Graduation ceremonies might still be going on if Dublin schools had asked all of its valedictorians to speak.
There were 222 of them.
That means two out of every 10 graduates at Dublin’s three high schools received top honors this year.
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The valedictorian was once the single highest-performing graduate — and some districts, such as Hilliard and South-Western, still adhere to the practice. But experts say it’s more typical to see multiple valedictorians or none at all as educators try eliminate the competition among students to be No. 1 of their class.
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Did they all make a valedictory speech at their graduation ceremonies?
And we LIKED IT that way!
-PJ
I graduated from high school in 1991. There were seven valedictorians in our class but all had 4.0 averages and all but one were in the same advanced classes. Sometimes there’s just a bunch of hard working smart kids.
I hope not. One salutatorian and one valedictorian speech is enough.
Everyone is special and above average, here is your diploma!
“oooh pretty... what does it say?”
Words fail the valedictorians as well.
They can’t spell.
“Vote for Pedro”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler_(University_of_Cambridge)
At Cambridge, there’s only one Senior Wrangler.
GG Stokes --- Cambridge Senior Wrangler 1841
One of my heroes.
In my BS Nuclear Engineering class, about 11 out of 25 graduated with honors..............
Dublin,Ohio; where all the students are above average!
I think we had 7 valedictorians, all straights As throughout HS even in AP classes.
More evidence of the on-going process I call: “Pussyfication of America”
Girls don’t like competition.... Boys do.
Guess how well boys are faring in education these days?
Oh for the days when an A was an A....
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