Student Graduates High School a Year Early with Top GPA; High School Bureaucrats Ruin Her Scholarship

This girl was told by officials in the school system that finishing high school a year early would not affect her “valedictorian status because she earned her four years of high school credit in the district’s schools.”

They were wrong:

Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year.

In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school’s history.

It’s still not enough to make her the valedictorian, which brings a one-year college scholarship from the state.
Her closest competitor’s GPA is 5.64. No one disputes that she’s the top student in her class numerically. The problem rests with another number entirely.

Anjali rocketed through high school in only three years.

But a school district policy states: “The valedictorian shall be the eligible student with the highest weighted grade-point average for four years of high school.”

She’s possibly the best student this school has ever seen, and the mind-numbed bureaucrats who run things there are ruining her graduation, and her chance at a scholarship, because she did in three years what it took the rest to do in four. They are punishing excellence!

Anjali says she and her parents are baffled.

“I have not heard of any educational institution penalizing a student for excellence – for completing a demanding set of classes ‘too quickly,’ ” said her father, Deepak Datta. “Anjali’s experience will surely send a strong negative signal to other talented students trying to excel.

“They will most certainly be discouraged from trying to do their best – instead will be more focused on gaming the system.”

Meanwhile, you have other government schools handing out valedictorian status to TWENTY-THREE STUDENTS!

EDMOND — Students chosen as valedictorians and salutatorians in high schools all across the nation have historically been the ones with the highest grade point averages.

In the Edmond school district, valedictorians and salutatorians are students having the highest grade point average through the fall semester prior to graduation.

“The valedictorians will be the students having all A’s; the salutatorians will include the students with all A’s except for one B,” said Edmond North counselor Allison Schneider.

“Designation of the valedictorian/salutatorian honors will be based upon a four point grading scale. All grades are averaged including all repeated courses.”

To qualify as a valedictorian or salutatorian, the student must be enrolled in the Edmond School District at the beginning of the fall semester of his/her senior year.

Edmond’s three high schools including Memorial, North and Santa Fe boast a total of 57 valedictorians and 19 salutatorians representing their 2007 graduating classes.

There can be no weighting of grades. No one can be made to be inferior or superior. We are all part of the collective now.

We are the educational industrial complex. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.