And when nobody is Valedictorian, everyone will be!!!
YAY, a participation award! WTF?
More dumbing down.
The one in my H.S. was a racist. I’m sure he’s quite successful. He will have to learn certain things the hard way.
I noticed on TV a few weeks ago that a local high school had 40 students with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
When I graduated in 65, I don’t think the valedictorian had a perfect average.
My nieces’ (twins) graduation class in Fresno, California actually had 22 “valedictorians”!
When princess riverdawg graduated from Catholic high school a few years ago, there was a valedictorian and a salutatorian and then an unranked list of students with “honors” who graduated with a 3.0 average or better. In large high schools with a substantial upper-middle-class student population, there might be 10 or more graduating students with a 4.0+ average in a college-prep/AP curriculum.
Everybody wins!
School (and university) administrators around the country have decided that the self-esteem of precious snowflakes is more important than academic standards. Mix in affirmative action for "minorities" and the elimination of grades and academic ranking is the natural outcome.
Knocking the achievers down because they can’t bring the underachievers up.
Same “silly” reason I don’t watch NASCAR any more. The winner should be the guy that wins the most races ... PERIOD! No “stages” no “Race to the Chase” ... Why can’t we just have winners anymore?
What about the poor kids who didn't meet the arbitrary threshold? That's not fair. It's low IQ shaming or maybe no perseverance shaming.
[[In its place are honors that recognize everyone who scores at a certain threshold]]
WHAAAAAAT? That’s ‘discriminatory’! EVERYONE deserves a valedictorian award regardless of attendance or grades
Guess it is OK. They are not taught anything in school these days. Everyone could be the top in his or her classes. Who cares?
“The end of the valedictorian? Schools rethink class rankings”
This will allow every student in the future to say, “I could have probably made valedictorian but the school dropped the honor.”
-PJ
I graduated in the mid-70’s. We had two valedictorians and one salutatorian. The difference was the two females passed on taking a geometry class where the teacher would not give a grade above A- due to his private standard. The male salutatorian took the class and received a B+. It was a lesson in making sure you consider wether your private stances adversely impact others.
I never liked high school and ranked it right up there with prison and nursing homes as places you would like to avoid. If graduation ceremonies were eliminated it would be fine with me.
Quit calling them schools. They’re babysitting and indoctrination centers.