My HS had six. This was 9 years ago.

When everyone's a winner, everybody loses.

Students are mixed on their feelings of the new system. Some say it is nice that more can be honored, but others feel the shared honor lacks the same impact.

This

And the pussification of the US continues.

austin_millbarge: And the pussification of the US continues.

No, that was achieved with indoor plumbing and air conditioning.

Oh well, the real world will bite them in the ass soon enough.

jmr61: Oh well, the real world will bite them in the ass soon enough.

Reality wouldn't dare do that! They're SPECIAL!

I'm surprised schools even keep grades anymore! Surprised they haven't gone to pass/fail. Oops, can't label someone as "fail" as it would hurt their feelings. Maybe it will be pass/you tried real hard and that is ok.

I wonder if they were taught the definition of grade inflation?

I also think we should have at least 5 Superbowl champs per year.

And? Either way it's a joke. It's farking high school.

Weird. Is this a repeat from 1970? 1980? 1990?

It happens all the time you "OMG PUSSIFICATION" morans. Maybe it's new at this school, but many places have treated ties as ties for a long time.

Don't let that get in the way of your "everyone has to win" stupidity, though.

My high school had no such thing. Then again, I think I went to the only public school with required entrance exams.

tonesskin: Weird. Is this a repeat from 1970? 1980? 1990?

It's practically a repeat from last weekend. I imagine we'll see much of the same biatching/moaning, amazing anecdotes, and trolling as we did last time.

I was 1 of 15. So it does cheapen it a little...college that is. Scholarships flow in for valedictorians a little bit easier. I was not the "top" student even though we were all tied.

AP classes weren't given an extra weight...so I didn't take any.

The worse part was that we ALL gave speeches.

John Dewey: tonesskin: Weird. Is this a repeat from 1970? 1980? 1990?

It's practically a repeat from last weekend. I imagine we'll see much of the same biatching/moaning, amazing anecdotes, and trolling as we did last time.

Guys, at my daughter's cousin's high school no one can even give blood anymore because the Red Cross says that 75% of them have HIV and so they all get A's in Advanced Calculus which is really the equivalent of 4th grade math after they had to adjust the curriculum!

Meh. Rural school districts in hillbilly central Pennsylvania have been doing this for years.

I'm all for the competitive spirit, but when it comes down to hundredths of a point, does it really matter who technically did .0001 better?

My daughter is angry b/c she wants to know where she ranks. In 9th grade she was #14. She's going to be a senior and they've stopped telling kids where they are.

/Though we're pretty sure her friend is going to be Valedictorian. Her GPA is over 4.

orangeglacier: I'm all for the competitive spirit, but when it comes down to hundredths of a point, does it really matter who technically did .0001 better?

This. Someone needs to teach the "OMG, TIES ARE BAD" people about statistically significant differences.

Earpj: My daughter is angry b/c she wants to know where she ranks. In 9th grade she was #14. She's going to be a senior and they've stopped telling kids where they are.

/Though we're pretty sure her friend is going to be Valedictorian. Her GPA is over 4.

I can't tell her where she ranks without pics.

it feels like it defeats it's own purpose when they find 18 snowflakes that are exactly alike...

AlgertMan: And? Either way it's a joke. It's farking high school.

This. It won't matter in 6 months.

And also, blame the schools for grade creep if you want to be pissed at someone. When you have 18 kids with GPAs above 4, what are you gonna do?

The college I went to had an automatic scholarship (a few $k) for anyone who was valedictorian. I'm betting lots of others do too. This high school is probably trying to manipulate those types of programs.

Something similar used to be done in TX. The top 10 percent of each high school was supposed to get automatic admission to any state college. There were some schools in the late 90s who reported 15+% of their students in the top 10%.

Polymerizer: The worseworst part was that we ALL gave speeches.

/fixed that for the valedictorian before Rotsky could chime in

If you think HS grading has the granularity to determine an actual 'best student' among a group of 20 high achievers ...

... then I've got some real estate you might be interested in.

tonesskin: Weird. Is this a repeat from 1970? 1980? 1990?

It happens all the time you "OMG PUSSIFICATION" morans. Maybe it's new at this school, but many places have treated ties as ties for a long time.

Don't let that get in the way of your "everyone has to win" stupidity, though.

Cleopatra?

This crepe is exactly why we have to import engineers and doctors from Asia. Every year we lower educational standards, and it's been going on for 30 years.

orangeglacier: I'm all for the competitive spirit, but when it comes down to hundredths of a point, does it really matter who technically did .0001 better?

Spoken like a true salutatorian.

To many

This is why the japanese are beating the pants off of us! In Japan you don't just graduate- you graduate with an A+ or you kill yourself!!!

Whodat?: AlgertMan: And? Either way it's a joke. It's farking high school.

This. It won't matter in 6 months.

And also, blame the schools for grade creep if you want to be pissed at someone. When you have 18 kids with GPAs above 4, what are you gonna do?

I don't know. Maybe ditch the grade systems that do not have finer units of marking like systems that use "letter grades?"

"What grade did you get, Johnny?"

"I got a A+"

"What grade did you get, Billy?"

"I got an A+"

"But you answered one question less with a correct answer than Johnny?

"Yeah! Isn't that cool?"

"Umm, not so much."

In all seriousness, High School is a joke.

If you are in high school right now, you need to...

1: Drop out

2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

3: Go to med school.

Wulfman: orangeglacier: I'm all for the competitive spirit, but when it comes down to hundredths of a point, does it really matter who technically did .0001 better?

Spoken like a true salutatorian.


This sentence is full of win.

Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

orangeglacier: I'm all for the competitive spirit, but when it comes down to hundredths of a point, does it really matter who technically did .0001 better?

Yes, yes it does. Ask Milorad Cavic about 0.01 at least.

At my high school, there was only one valedictorian, and that's the way we liked it. Actually, my high school was completely nuts. The AP classes were weighted 5.0 while the other courses were weighted 4.0. Of course, not every course could be taken AP (i.e. PE) , so some courses you had to take were weighted 4.0. Therefore for someone gunning to be valedictorian, the key to getting it would be take as many AP classes as possible regardless of interest just to boost GPA. This led to all sorts of insane tricks such as taking 4.0 classes like PE by correspondence during the summer to free up slots during the school year to take AP Geography II/Physics II/Chemistry II or whatever. This also led to the side effect of people refusing to take cool 4.0 classes such as guitar or carpentry since it lowered GPA. The net effect is a bunch of grade-grubbing, back-stabbing, cheating bastards all clawing to the top. Did I mention that I didn't like high school?

tonesskin: Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

Let me give you an example-

Dr Richard O'Brien in Denver, Colorado. Med School in Mexico. Took the MSATs in America. Makes 18million a year and works only one day a week.

Yet another natural consequence of liberalism--utter pussification--is imposed by governanny apparatchiks.

Dashman: tonesskin: Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

Let me give you an example-

Dr Richard O'Brien in Denver, Colorado. Med School in Mexico. Took the MSATs in America. Makes 18million a year and works only one day a week.

They decreed that?

tonesskin: Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

...and this "some one"? These sound like basic English mistakes that are typically discussed and corrected in high school.

But we all know that you, Dashman, are at the head of their Med School class right?

tonesskin: Dashman: tonesskin: Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

Let me give you an example-

Dr Richard O'Brien in Denver, Colorado. Med School in Mexico. Took the MSATs in America. Makes 18million a year and works only one day a week.

They decreed that?

Man- you're a fast typer.

Dashman: tonesskin: Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

Let me give you an example-

Dr Richard O'Brien in Denver, Colorado. Med School in Mexico. Took the MSATs in America. Makes 18million a year and works only one day a week.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

jetzzfan: tonesskin: Dashman: 2: Change your name to some one that has a college decree.

What did the college decree?

...and this "some one"? These sound like basic English mistakes that are typically discussed and corrected in high school.

But we all know that you, Dashman, are at the head of their Med School class right?

Would you like me to type a few sentences for you so that you can correct it's grammar, spelling and sentence structure? Here is a sentence for you...

'I never went to high school. I never went to college. I never went to med school. I'm filthy farking rich.'

Enjoy.

When I graduated from university, there was a valedictorian for each faculty. So, five faculties meant five valedictorians. But each faculty had our own separate ceremony, so it wasn't as retarded as the school FTA.

/Class of 2007 Valedictorian

Dashman: 'I never went to high school. I never went to college. I never went to med school. I'm filthy farking rich. happy in mommy's basement'

Nobody cares what you did in high school.

Benjimin_Dover: Polymerizer: The worseworst part was that we ALL gave speeches.

/fixed that for the valedictorian before Rotsky could chime in

I'm glad that fark has standards for grammar.

tonesskin: happy in mommy's basement'

I love people that think they can get ahead by working real real hard. They make my floors spotless.

I will not rest until every high school graduate is a valedictorian.

College competition is stiffer than ever.

That said, you need a graduate degree these days to climb the corporate ladder, and it always amazed me in grad school that for every Princeton or Columbia grad I sat next to, there were three students from colleges I had either never heard of or knew only from March Madness. My point being, I'm not sure it matters where you go undergrad if you're planning on getting a professional, doctorate or medical degree afterward; for every Harvard MD I've met who did their bio/chem BS at, for example, Princeton, I can tell you about a Johns Hopkins MD who graduated from UMBC. Go to the school you can graduate for free from. Trust me, no one will look down at you for having a free UNC or Michigan degree instead of one you paid 160k for from Brown.