Posted on 05/29/2008 7:39:13 PM PDT by Lusis
He had a 1.8 in 5 years followed by a .5 in one semester at Vanderbilt.
I’m a retired high school teacher, and my exxperience was that the top twenty percent of any class could easily graduate in three years. By the time I retired ten years ago, a large number of kids could have graduated at midterm of their senior year, but were held back by by a senior English requirement. Nature will eventually prevail over artificial barriers.
The article makes it clear that the rule was intended to keep late transfers from stealing the show. That is clearly not the case here. And a counselor, she says, told her that graduating early would not jeopardize her bid for valedictorian.
All in all, this was a very stupid decision on the part of the school administration. No excuse for this kind of bad judgment. Fire the idiots. No one that stupid should be responsible for the education of our children.
I love reasonable bureaucrats! :-)
Agreed. The Valedictorian in my class had a 3.999. She got one A-, in woodshop!
I wish they had these rules 10 years ago when I graduated. I had enough credits to graduate after my first trimester of my senior year, but had to go to school for my last two trimesters because of state laws. Plus, if I could have skipped my last two semesters, I could have had a higher GPA. I skipped a lot of class and generally only put forth enough effort to get C’s because I had no reason to be there. I had completed the requirements and had been accepted into the only college to which I applied.
Feel good education does more of a disservice than these people realize.
Huge scandal back then, his being the son of the state's senior senator (you remember Al Gore, Sr. of course -- chap who filibustered both the 1964 Civil Rights Act AND the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and was financially in bed with the old Communist, Armand Hammer, for decades).
gosh, that’s just not the way he remembers it.
No she didn't. She really didn't. She completed four year's worth of coursework in three years, but she did not complete four years. Say, for example, she took five years to complete four years worth of coursework, you would no say she completed in four years, would you?
The rule is the rule. It has an unfortunate result, but that is often true of rules. No need whining about it.
you are right.
The Creator doesn’t judge you versus others.
He judges you by how well you do with what He provides.
Actually, the long-term consequences were probably good for me, because if I had written a valedictory address I would probably be embarrassed by it now. (On the other hand, if I were to deliver a commmencement address with the benefit of 30 additional years of life experience it would probably be pretty good.)
— heartwood’s dh (aka VeritatisSplendor)
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