“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.
That’s what I would like to have seen when I graduated, but unfortunately, a young lady from a much smaller, and we all assumed a less “rigorous” school transferred in to our school her Junior year. We were all rated on a 100 point scale, just taking our marks from each class, and the top three at our school were less than 0.5 points apart.
Turns out she took the #2 spot instead of me. Didn’t like that, but being a white male, I said, “Oh yeah? Watch this.” and proceeded to get a full ride to the school I wanted anyway.
Suck it up, buttercup. Stop whining and prove ‘em wrong.
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.
AAh, there you go, my GD transferred to a new school in her senior year, and would have been valedictorian, based on her grades. Nobody in the family was the least bit concerned, we knew where she was going to college and based on her grades and test scores got a full scholarship, which was the reason she moved here in the first place.