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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I find it fishy this student ended up at Alcorn State? If she is as smart as she claims to be every school in the country will be sending her acceptance letters with full scholarships.
I HS I took 7 years of science classes and every math class I could.
Had a roommate in college, from my same HS that took few science and math classes...I tutored him in Economics.
Taking harder classes DOES count for something.
You mean there was actually a Salutatorian who wasn’t an Asian?
If she can repeatedly speak the sentence “Would you like fries with that?” without any trace of ebonic inflection, she has a bright future ahead of her no matter which college she manages to get into.
So hard to judge these things when “journalists” only give you one side of the story......
What she learned from high-school was how to sue people.
By golly, she’s gonna go far. /s
“James transferred to the newly formed Cleveland Central High in 2017”
I thought you had to have been a student in that school for the whole 4 years to qualify for valedictorian or salutatorian.
Man.....brains and beauty.
That is true, but depending on what classes the students take, someone that takes all “easy” classes vs the AP classes can have a higher GPA. OR depending on how the stupid administration applies the AP score, an AP class may not give full AP credit. This happened to one of my sons. His AP Biology class was for three blocks, so the first block didn’t get AP credit, that was considered unfair..... to the other students NOT taking AP Biology. My sons took all five AP classes offered at their high school and scored 3’s or above. When my son was not given the Salutatorian status and a girl that took mostly general ed classes had a slightly higher GPA, due to that AP Bio - needless to say, this momma bear went in loaded for bear. Thankfully that administration is no longer at the high school.
Let’s compare teacher summaries and disciplinary actions over those 4 years, too.
When I went to school in the mid/late 1970s, there was a full grade point increase given for what then were called "Honors" courses. So a 4.0 in an Honors class became a 5.0.
The reasoning given to me by an instructor was to ensure that a Shop major didn't become Valedictorian.
I know the Honors Calculus and Physics courses I took really raised my GPA to offset the horrible grades I got in Humanities.
Correct. When I finished HS in mid 70’s, the girl that was third in the class had three years of Home Economics and minimal math and science. I was an athlete that did not much care and finished 11th. My course load was heavy on math and science. But she nosed out some that had a much more rigorous course of study.
Pet peeve: an AP course will show up on your transcript so every college a kid applies to will see it. Giving extra GPA points is ridiculous and nonsensical - kids don’t get more than a 4 for an A+, so why should they get more for the kind of class?
That having been said, it looks like the school really screwed the pooch in how they treated the kids from the historically black school.
SEVEN years? Did HS go through 15th grade back in those days?
So, did momma bear win?
The article is almost purposefully unclear.
If the school gives weighting to AP and advanced courses, that should have been known from the first day of school. Every kid would know it, and every kid should be able to calculate it.
It is in our district school.
If you are taking an AP course the only thing that matters is the grade on the exam itself not the class grade.
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