[freepatriot32]

3 geusses what this whore becomes when he grows up.Well gets bigger anyway i dont think he will ever grow up

[taxcontrol]

I hope he looses and gets disillusioned and decides to NOT be a lawyer. Worst possible outcome would be for him to win and then think that the best way to solve a personal disagreement is to sue.

[Wolfie]

Did the little dork know what the ISD's grade values were? Maybe his momma ought to teach him to know what he's getting into before hand, instead of getting sue happy from the get go. But then she's a lawyer, so we can forget that.

[stanz]

Headed straight to law school and then into politics. Maybe even to Oxford.....

[al_c]

Pathetic.

It's a freakin' A, kid ... be happy about it.

[lepton]

Though he is, and should be subject to the rules in place when he chose to take a particular class, it is indeed manifestly unfair that a difficult class or program has a cap on the grades independent of actual achievement. An unweighted system where college prep and remedial classes are weighted the same is a similar travesty...especially when the average grade in the college prep classes is a full letter below the average in other classes (as they were in my school).

[Just mythoughts]

Don't judge too quick on this one, you would be amazed how far a school district will go to make sure the ones they want at the top get the top.

I could tell what a school was willing to do to a student to prevent the student from being given what the student earned, but the school would not reconize the achievements because it was not fair to the rest of the class.

This school was willing to attach a letter to transcript stating if student had been rank with student's achievement against the rest of the class the student would be NUMBER 1.

Since they could not rank the student accurately they would have to give student ranking of 36. Students ranked Number 1 are put in a special class of scholarship money and college offers. A district that willing will not rank the student with the students accomplishments is causing a loss of money to that student.

[FreePaul]

Looks as if the Memphis ISD is desparately trying to teach students that there is no difference between a grade of A and A+. That should keep the students from working too hard for a grade.

[RippleFire]

bump

[Xenalyte]

Back in the early '90s when I was teaching at the local university, I had a parent call me after the semester was over to try to get me to change her daughter's D to something higher.

I said that unfortunately, her daughter did D work at best, and my award of that grade was charitable.

Mama got very upset with me. When she finally took a breath from her rant, I mentioned that of the 10 assignments, her little girl didn't even turn in four, for which I should have failed her right there.

I pointed out that her little girl was always late to class - at least 15 minutes late for a 50-minute class - every time, and I had the records to prove it.

I offered to take Mama and her little girl to the college ombudsman or whoever it was that arbitrated these sorts of disputes, and Mama backed down pretty quickly.

I'm guessing her little girl didn't tell Mama about her subpar performance - just how unfair I was as a teacher - and that Mama figured she could intimidate me, the lowly teaching fellow.

And when Mama hung up on me, I knew exactly where her little girl got her non-work ethic.

[mhking]

Idiot lawsuit alert!

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[Explorer89]

The "Valedictorian" in my high school class went so far as to deliberately skip a couple of gym classes so that she would get a "PASS" instead of an "A" which would be only worth 4 points instead of the 5 points her honors classes were worth. The PASS wasn't factored in....an "A" would have lowered her GPA. I understand that she's a lawyer now....

[El Sordo]

I bet he'll be one of the smart guys who can't understand why he's unemployable.

[OrioleFan]

Our school system has a plan where you can take classes at local colleges or you can take honors or scholarship AP classes at the High School. The only real reasons to take the college classes is for the experience, and because the honors class at the high school is not available either because it is not offered, or not enough students signed up for it. Your college course grade counts like a regular grade, where the AP grades are weighted. My problem with the college courses is that this is a State of Ohio unfunded mandate - I believe the local school district picks up the tuition and books costs. Students are made aware of the grading issue going into the programs. This twerp needs to get nailed for filing a frivilous lawsuit, and his family gets to pick up the costs.

[montag813]

Diane Delekta is representing her son. The suit calls for class rankings, scheduled to be released Monday, to be frozen until the complaint is settled.

What a dirtbag this bitch is. She's a "mother" alright.

[xm177e2]

Has anyone actually read the technical details of the article before going off on a tear against lawyers? The student--who had an A+ average in all other classes--took a work experience class that was not required, and got an A in it--but an "A" was the highest grade possible (and A+s count for more). So any student who takes work experience by definition can't be a co-valedictorian, if there are other students with A+s in every class.

It's not fair to deny a student valedictorianship because they took a certain class--in fact, it's ridiculous. This kid has a claim to being harmed (loss of scholarship money, harder time getting into universities, etc.).

The question is, are public schools allowed to be unfair?

[Johnny Gage]

wah wah wah... obivously already planning on voting for people in this party.

[stylin19a]

Diane Delekta said the intermediate school district has a checklist of things it requires in a work program. "It was what he would do if he were a paralegal in a law office," she said. "He prepared documents, met with clients."

How does doing what you are suppose to do earn an A+ ?
If he did none of the things on the list, would he have gotten only an A ?