Posted on 05/03/2019 7:12:07 AM PDT by C19fan
A black high school graduate is suing her Mississippi school district because she claims she lost out on a college scholarship after a white male student with a lower GPA was named salutatorian instead of her.
Olecia James, 18, filed the federal lawsuit against the Cleveland School District last week.
The teenager claims that district officials took away the chance of her being salutatorian - the graduate with the second-best grades - of Cleveland Central High School because they 'feared white flight'.
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“When my daughter was little she told me that when she grew up she wanted to be either a cashier or doctor LOL.”
I have a physician client. He asked one of daughters (from second marriage) what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said “a trophy wife”.
Hahahaha! Gotta love it.
Take it with my compliments!
If you are looking for variety, you can say: “Life is hard, and then you die.” Gotta consider your audience - my boys both know Christ, so that means something good.
Another is from John Wayne: “Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.” That’s actually my favorite when I’m talking about whining democrats.
That was an unnecessary shot at a culture that values education.
I laughed.
When I went to high school in the 60s you didn’t need to point out which classes were more advanced or more difficult.
If one student had a transcript which showed general math and Earth science. And another student had a transcript which showed algebra 3, trigonometry, chemistry, then I think it was pretty obvious who took more rigorous classes.
Now, no matter what they call it you have easy algebra versus hard algebra. When I was in high school if you took algebra you took algebra the same algebra everyone else took. If they weren’t capable of taking algebra they took general math. I despise the educational system for what they’ve done.
Why do you think it was a shot? If anything it points out just how much they do value education.
If it was a “shot”, it’s directed at others who don’t apply themselves.
This story possibly is as she claims. But knowing the state of Journalism now, I suspect there’s more that we aren’t hearing. I don’t think it’s quite as simple as this article claims.
The key is, we’ll never know the truth because everybody involved is going to lie through their teeth.
I went into teaching after a combined 22 years in the military and making Tomahawk cruise missiles at Convair in San Diego.
I saw many Vietnamese refugees and other orientals in my classes and was deeply impressed with their work ethic related to education. It was a whole family thing. During open houses I usually met three generations of the student's elders.
Hope she wins a lot more than the scholarship would have been. The school is in the wrong. Too bad any settlement will be from tax dollars instead of the principal or whomever the idiot was who lowered her GPA.
When I was in school, before AP classes were invented, our class valedictorian figured out the easiest and most guaranteed way to get a high GPA was to go the DE route to take half the day off with a job. That ticked the rest of us off who took higher classes but she was smart enough to scam the system.
I know. Kids Say the Darndest Things. LOL
OMG . Depending on her age that could be a good thing. She might think that she would be a wife who was given a trophy for something. Perhaps best housekeeping? Or best cook? :)
Grade inflation is so bad now that colleges consider the SAT and ACT scores much more than grades. If she didn’t get scholarships with a gpa that high, it’s because her SAT/ACT is low. That also probably means she’s not that smart, and she was given most of those grades. I knew a girl in college who cried racism to every prof who didn’t give her an A. They all gave her an A except for one. She cried racism but he had a protected position and it didn’t stick.
With a high GPA, she might be accepted into many colleges, but maybe not with a full scholarship.
The article says she was hoping for a scholarship especially for HS salutatorians from Univ. of Miss.
Adding to my post:
I just checked - salutatorian scholarships aren’t worth very much (maybe $1000).
Most likely the lawsuit was filed to make a point.
Question is: Why?
Were the other person's courses more difficult than hers?
If not then she should win her case.
If it is as simple as they discounted her coursework for no other reason than race, then yeah she was wronged. Unfortunately I do not see how, in this day and age, any school, business or organization would willfully favor a white male over a black female. Nobody with any kind of authority thinks that way anymore and even if they might they know the blowback would destroy them for life. There is no political, economic or career benefit to favoring a white male.
What I find remarkable is that they administration didn’t bend over backwards to favor the kids coming from the historically black high school. Even if the class was less rigorous than the similar class where she graduated the politically correct thing would be to give it equal or more weight because they are “disadvantaged” or something.
I didn’t see it as a shot at Asians who value education, but at the more general culture of white and black America that does not.
There is a truth to it too. My HS had one Asian (Vietnamese) family and my class valedictorian came from that family. I doubt any of her family finished less than salutatorian.
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