This billboard stunt probably really embarrassed the kid.
Valedictorian is dumb anyway. Really, the minute you’re out of high school it means nothing. Now you gotta go be an adult, get a job, go to college, anybody old enough to drink that mentions anything they did in high school other than meeting their wife is a loser.
50 years ago, my HS had three students with four years of straight A’s and a 4.0 GPA. The girl was named valedictorian. And so we ended up with the first Home Ec track valedictorian in school history.
My son was Valedictorian in his high school at a time when the school and society recognized such things as an accomplishment.
He told me two things going into his senior year.
First, his goal was to become valedictorian.
Second, he said the only thing that proved was that he was a good student, not that he accomplished anything in life.
Here's what's weird.
The salutatorian was a close friend of his. The salutatorian and my son share the same birthday. The salutatorian and my son were born in the same hospital on the same day. In high school they were on the same high school bowl team. They won first place in their conference one of their years in high school.
P.S. My son is so conservative he makes me look like Joseph Stalin. He is in year 14 of a Navy career and has just been promoted to Commander. He isn't totally comfortable with military politics and may retire in 20 because of that.
If more Valedictorians were minority, no problems.
Dash gets in trouble in school; on the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.”
The Incredibles ‘Everyone’s special’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXCCBmTvBI
My undergrad college used 3.5 GPA as magna cum laude. My GPA was 3.4999 and they would not round it up. They never received a penny from me thereafter.
I’m so old, I remember when Academy Awards ceremonies intoned, “And the winner is...” Nowadays other award shows follow along with the Academy’s current meme, “And the award goes to...” God forbid there be winners and losers.
At least they didn’t draw straws to determine the valedictorian like in St. Olaf. :P (Golden Girls).
#1 in your class may not mean much.
The valedictorian of my sr class took easy classes and had a 4.0 but scored a 20 on the ACT test. Several others took hard classes and scored above 30.
My dad said he was in the top 10 of his class and expected the same of us kids. Mom let us know that he was 8th...of 9.
Must be an NC thing. I’ve heard NC state gives a 4.5 for an A+, so that you can earn back to a 4.0 if you didn’t get all As in a semester.
I won a chugging contest at my highschool.
Nice...nicely done dad and son...