Uhh...being valedictorian is cool for one night, after that it means jack **** in college. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-05-02-students-seeks-valedictorian_x.htm
Wow! Great parents! If you don't get what you want, sweetie...just sue them! Super. I would beat my kid's ass (not literally!!) if he even mentioned suing for something like this to me. Being gracious is more important than being valedictorian. dorks.
Yeah, I forgot to mention she is co-valedictorian. She wants to sue to be the valedictorian. What's sad is she's already been accepted to Harvard, Princeton, etc.
In a district where my sister worked they had a girl sue over being Valedictorian but it was kind of the reverse of this case. In the district in question Honors classes are not weighted like they are in most districts. The girl that sued was named salutatorian because she made a B+ in an AP calculus class. She had taken every honors class available and made A's in all of them except the calculus class. The girl that was named Valedictorian took no honors classes and made one more A than the salutatorian. It actually cost the girl a scholarship because they punished her for taking honors classes and rewarded the other girl for doing well in regular classes. The premise to the suit was that if the girl had taken all regular classes instead of the more challenging honors classes there would have been no dispute. She would have had a perfect 4.0 and been well ahead of the girl named Valedictorian. The girl won the suit 2 months after graduation and was awarded the monies that she lost in the scholarship.
Great - I would have thought that she was smart before - now the whole world knows that she's a dumb*ss!
The fact that the girl in question was not required to take lower weighted classes makes her lawsuit appear spurious. It was not a fair fight for the other two students, she got the benefit of the doubt. Hey, if you are valedictorian, you get your picture at least twice in the yearbook, even if you aren't in a cool clique. I could have lived without giving the speech.
In my graduating class, the prettiest girl was made valedictorian, not the student with the best marks. She was one of the smart ones, but she definitely didn't have the best grades out of everyone. I don't remember who made the decision or how it was reached. It seems pretty messed up in hindsight.
I think the other two students should be considered for #1 if they had perfect grades and took the most possible honors classes they could. Because of the grade weight system and her physical disability she was able to take more honors classes than possible for the other two students. I only think she has a right to sue if they recalculated her grades by downgrading the grades in the honors classes equal to the number of PE credits other students were required to take, and she still has a GPA higher than the other two students. B
Not if its only two people in the class. Come on lawyer, you're supposed to come up with these scenrios.
Why not just change the standards and include PE as a prerequisite to graduation, if you are not able to take it, make it be a rule that you have to share the Valedictorian honor. DD
I'm not sure, but I think at my school you have to take PE or a PE equivalent, like Athletics or Band I think, for 1.5 semesters in order to get all the right credits and stuff. I'm not positive on that though. I know it is that way for the students who want to graduate with honors and stuff, but I don't know if it is for everyone. Then again, my school is pretty small and may be different than other schools. edit: btw, at my school all 3 of those classes are graded the same with the same weight, I believe. As long as you come to class and don't get in a lot of trouble, you get a 95 in those classes. However, it may be a little unfair for a new Mozart to get the same grade as a guy who beats a stick against the wall.
Isn't it against the law to have frivolous lawsuits? If it isn't, then it should be. Okay maybe stating that this whole thing is frivolous is being melodramatic, but it sounds like to me that this girl has felt like a loser her whole life and she wants to really rub some people's faces in her glory. Girlie, you made a 1570 and got accepted to schools that other people would dream about getting into. Isn't that enough to be satisfied. Typical of today's society...don't get what you want, whine or better yet sue until you do. Pathetic.
My skool is so f***ing ridiculous. It's a mega school (second largest in Alabama, currently) and for the past 20 or so years (maybe not that many; not quite sure) there have been upwards of 30 Valedictorians. It's pretty much anyone with a above 4.0 GPA gets it. It's fair, I guess, but when some students apply to schools, and they ask for class rank and if you were valedictorian or not, the univ's. will send it back, citing clarical error! It's funny. The Salutdictorian is the next person with an under 4.0 GPA. Unfortunately for me, next year the school will be split up (and legally segregated believe it or not; I live 2 minutes from the old, formerly black school that was segregated 40 years ago, and 15 minutes from the brand new one. Of course I'm zoned for the brand new one, and two of the three schools will be pretty much all white, while the current one will be all black. The current school is getting a new campus in 2 or 3 years, though; but a Senator is claiming the board is racist, becuase they won't move it to the western part of the city, where the black leaders, including the Senator, want to start new businesses. I wouldn't doubt this being on Fox News next year ), so there will be only one valedictorian and one salutdictorian. Pray for me .
I don't think honors classes make it any easier to judge. The truth is that some of lower level teachers can bust your ass just as much as the honors teachers. Every teacher is different. In fact, it seems to me that an upper level class is actually easier because the teachers are focusing more on complex thinking than actual computation or execution. Which for some may be much easier. I know that graduate school was easier than undergraduate. So you can make that case too. It's not easy making these decisions. That's why I think a formula is the best solution. Plop the numbers in and whoever comes out wins.
