It’s hurtful to have a top scholar. Think how it makes everyone else feel?
At many American high schools, the graduation-day tradition of crowning a valedictorian is becoming a thing of the past.
The ranking of students from No. 1 on down, based on grade-point averages, has been fading steadily for about the past decade. In its place are honors that recognize everyone who scores at a certain threshold — using Latin honors, for example. This year, one school in Tennessee had 48 valedictorians.
About half of schools no longer report class rank, according to the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Administrators worry about the college prospects of students separated by large differences in class rank despite small differences in their GPAs, and view rankings as obsolete in an era of high expectations for every student, association spokesman Bob Farrace said. There are also concerns about intense, potentially unhealthy competition and students letting worries about rank drive their course selections.
They should just write “Valedictorian” in cursive on every diploma. Cursive is no longer taught, they couldn’t read it.
“Now remember, we can’t all sign with an X.”
Is there any rainbow they will not piss on?
Give them all a participation trophy and call it good.
all according to plan …. dumb them down to the level of sheep … much, much easier to control … all you need is a (law)dog to herd them
… just a step into making them all batteries to power the system … once the battery is used up, it is unplugged … such simple efficiency
All the more reason to get school control back to the states.
Communism is getting stronger all the time. We used to celebrate hard work and achievement. Take your children out of these cesspools. Is it any wonder so many people are home schooling?
Does that mean we will do away with MVP for sports?
Why bother with grades either!
This is just an “everyone gets a trophy” moment. It’s racist or something to discriminate against dumb, lazy schitts you know.
When thee are no winners, there are only losers.
As more and more years go by, I’m becoming more and more proud of my 2.2 GPA. Yea, I was a slacker back then, but look at me now!……
At our daughters academy, the are several different types
of awards so that all students get at least one. They do still
award the top students in each academic specialty like math,
reading, etc. I’m not worried about grades so much at 1st grade,
but I am worried about the academic development at that age to
ensure they don’t fall behind like kids whose parents don’t give
a shit. We see that all of the time out here. You can also tell
the kids that don’t speak english at home as some of them really
suck at spoken engrish.
In today’s schools with unlimited ‘do-overs’ and extra credit for attendance, any kid that doesn’t graduate with a 4.5 GPA on a 4 pt scale, just isn’t trying.