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Black Miss HS graduate files lawsuit after a white male student was named salutatorian [ed] [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 3, 2019 | Emily Crane

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'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: arth; education; mississippi; oleciajames; race; racism; segregation
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When I went to school in the early/mid 80s there was no bonus factor for taking harder courses, for example AP. Now schools will apply a factor to boost GPAs based on what they perceive to be the difficulty of the course. That is why you see HS students with way above 4.00 GPAs.
1 posted on 05/03/2019 7:12:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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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.


2 posted on 05/03/2019 7:13:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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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.


3 posted on 05/03/2019 7:15:25 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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You mean there was actually a Salutatorian who wasn’t an Asian?


4 posted on 05/03/2019 7:15:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

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.


5 posted on 05/03/2019 7:16:43 AM PDT by VietVet876
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I find it fishy this student ended up at Alcorn State?

It's an historically black school. Those still hold great loyalty from blacks, having educated kids at a time when white schools would not.

Though it is by definition a form of chosen segregation.


6 posted on 05/03/2019 7:17:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

So hard to judge these things when “journalists” only give you one side of the story......


7 posted on 05/03/2019 7:18:22 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: dfwgator

What she learned from high-school was how to sue people.

By golly, she’s gonna go far. /s


8 posted on 05/03/2019 7:18:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“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.


9 posted on 05/03/2019 7:18:43 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Man.....brains and beauty.


10 posted on 05/03/2019 7:19:03 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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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.


11 posted on 05/03/2019 7:21:06 AM PDT by southernindymom
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Let’s compare teacher summaries and disciplinary actions over those 4 years, too.


12 posted on 05/03/2019 7:21:07 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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When I went to school in the early/mid 80s there was no bonus factor for taking harder courses, for example AP.

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.

13 posted on 05/03/2019 7:21:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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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.


14 posted on 05/03/2019 7:21:45 AM PDT by RatRipper
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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?


15 posted on 05/03/2019 7:22:05 AM PDT by jagusafr
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That having been said, it looks like the school really screwed the pooch in how they treated the kids from the historically black school.


16 posted on 05/03/2019 7:23:17 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: BBB333

SEVEN years? Did HS go through 15th grade back in those days?


17 posted on 05/03/2019 7:23:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: southernindymom

So, did momma bear win?


18 posted on 05/03/2019 7:24:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: C19fan

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.


19 posted on 05/03/2019 7:25:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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If you are taking an AP course the only thing that matters is the grade on the exam itself not the class grade.


20 posted on 05/03/2019 7:26:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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