What happened was they recalculated her GPA based on the classes she took at her prior high school which dropped her final GPA to .01 below his.
The real question is whether they can justify that recalculation.
“James transferred to the newly formed Cleveland Central High in 2017 after a federal judge ruled that the Mississippi school district was illegally segregating black and white students in two different schools”
I read the article and as stated above she did transfer into a newly formed school. It doesn’t seem fair the the dude that qualified for salutatorian would be knocked out of that position by someone who transfers in at the last minute and take his place. Why didn’t the school systems get together and agree that for that class the graduation ceremonies and honors awards be held for the respective classes at their old school.