Another name for second place is first loser.
Competition is needed in our young, not this socialist drivel.
How is this a good move? To the extent that schools are preparing students for life, a life in which they will be competing for jobs and career success, how is this a good move??
As they compete for jobs and other career moves, they will be in competitions in which there is only one winner and multiple people who fell short. That’s life. So we are going to have angst that there can be only one valedictorian among a group of very bright students??? Really????
If your not first, your last. BORB
there is a presumption that a top scholar can be determined
given the inability to measure with absolute precision that presumption may not be valid. coupled with parental pressure on not only the individual students but the faculty by unrelenting mothers , the measuring is just not worth the effort.
the concept of magna cum laude recognizes excellence
mothers that unrelentally press and press and then whine and whine and whine are a serious problem