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It is? A valedictorian is assigned purely based on GPA, not their family situation or moral code. Would it be Constitutional to deny a gay student Valedictorian status because the Administration hates gays?
Valedictorian can be assigned based on whatever standards the school wants, it is simply traditional that the highest GPA earner gets it.
It would be a lot easier for the school to come up with a rational basis for denying the valedictorian slot to a pregnant teenager than for denying it to a gay kid.
I don't care if she is a teen mother or not. She has the highest ranking GPA of her class, period. Do you think there has never been a valedictorian who's gotten a girl pregnant or aborted a child the no one knew about? How about Valedictorians who got drunk at some point during high school or Valedictorians who aren't virgins? Anyone who's had sex is a potential teen mother or father. Just because she kept her child doesn't mean she should lose the title that she worked very hard for, despite her situation and the odds.
You may not care but you're not the principal of the school right? No. This is his school, and if he doesn't want a whole mess of parent upset, or the administration breathing down his back, then that's what he had to do. And besides, principals generally don't know who got drunk where and how. There is no official policy that a Valedictorian has to be the one with the highest GPA. It wasn't at my school, it's just a tradition
She had the highest GPA even though she had a baby her Junior year? I'm sorry, but that's even MORE impressive. Good for her! She should be Valedictorian.
Painting the whole south as negatively due to this sole incident is idiotic. Why do many northerners bash the south as racist, yet the northeastern part of the US is overwhelmingly white??
People bash the south as racist because this kind of racist stuff seems to happen far more often in the south. It also doesn't help that many southern states and residents still celebrate the actions of the racist confederacy and display their flag with pride.
If this happened to a black student in the north, it would be considered shocking and unusual. In the south, it is unfortunately seen as all too typical and expected.
What does being gay have to do with anything? This has nothing to do with someone's perceived sexual orientation
You're claiming the school understandably denied her status based on a perceived moral qualm (unwed mother). It'd be no different than denying a gay person Valedictorian because the school board opposes homosexuality on moral grounds.
A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn't let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court.
living in AR and being an avid reader of the paper, I am surprised there hasn't been any coverage of this yet, nor on public broadcast which we watch regularly...?????
You're claiming the school understandably denied her status based on a perceived moral qualm (unwed mother). It'd be no different than denying a gay person Valedictorian because the school board opposes homosexuality on moral grounds.
Yes because the school would not want negative publicity that comes with perceiving it promotes teenage pregnancy. Get it? And no it's way different.
If anything.. this girl could be a role model to other prego teens. Not to give up on their dreams. Even if you have a kid it is still possible to finish school at the top of your class. The girl deserves the award, she earned it.
Wow so someone files a suit and their claims are just taken as fact by the enlightened Left before the case is even adjudicated or the other side responds.
Frankly the fact she had a B would have disqualified her from contention in the high school I went to. Also are we to believe that in 1989 a black valedictorian was allowed but 22 years later are no longer allowed at the school?
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And no it's way different.
