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The judge is not to blame. The school district gets some of the blame, and the way the ADA was written and is being enforced gets another chunk. But the judge, much as the outcome was bad, enforced the law. For four years this student and her family worked the system to maximize her GPA, within the rules of the school district. Once the school district realized what was going on, they tried to change the rules retroactively, and you JUST CAN'T DO THAT. I think the new principal has a good start on rationalizing the rules for choosing the valedictorian in the future, but he should not have tried to make them retroactive. That was his downfall.