Posted on 09/08/2007 9:17:46 AM PDT by rhema
Follow the money in a criminal investigation. Follow the coercion in a question of tyranny or infringement of rights. Good rule.
Fifteen valedictorians? The dumbing down of our schools continues.
Tell me about it. :(
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I think this gal should get an honorary degree then!
Yeah if there’s that many ppl with the same GPA they probably aren’t testing hard enough.
"Jesus H. Christ! How can you have 15 valedictorians???"
Well, see, there were obviously top achievers in many different areas in this school. Maybe one was the best at making friends, another had the clearest skin, while still another ran the fastest in gym. So not wanting to destroy the self esteem of any of these power house kids, they just did what liberals always do when their fear of offending takes control. In this case they made them all Valedictorians and by doing so made the award totally meaningless.
There was a town in NJ that several years ago stopped having tryouts for cheerleaders. They did this because they claimed the girls who were cut had their self esteem damaged. The results of this? Being a cheerleader, which was always recognized as an affirmation that you were "hot" became meaningless as the cheerleaders became uglier and uglier. The real good looking girls stopped going out for the team because the status of being on it was taken away.
What do you expect of a group of people so unprincipled as to declare that 30 students all came in 1st place?
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The ACLU and the educators are apparently reading the Soviet Constitution. It says:
Article 52 [Religion]
(1) Citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct religious worship or atheistic propaganda. Incitement of hostility or hatred on religious grounds is prohibited.
(2) In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.
Why do they lie every year? I thought Good Christians didn’t do that.
This is the kind of thing that happens when you don't keep score.
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I hope she sues the hell out of the idiots. She’s got a sure winner there.
It seems to me that she was to give a speech about her achievements, and Jesus was a major part of helping her achieve her goals. She was just excercising her First Amendment rights to free religion and speech. The school itself was remaining neutral, but as an idividual, she had the right to mention her Christian faith. The leftists have take freedom of religion to mean freedom from religion.
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