A student at Proviso East High School in Illinois named graduated this weekend top of his class, but was denied the valedictorian spot. Watch the video to find out why.
Having achieved a weighted GPA of 4.135, he should be a shoe-in for Valedictorian and had even prepared his speech. But early last week, the school Principal told him that he wasn’t eligible for the title after all.
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Assuming they use the 5 point system, where an A in regular classes is a 4, and an A in a honors or AP class is a 5… then with straight A’s, a 4.135 GPA implies that only 13.5% of his classes were honors. I’m left thinking that the school kind of sucks, either because they don’t offer enough honors classes, or that their valedictorian only had the low 4s. Go figure, the principal of this school is also a dick.
My senior year I used to always be late to first hour, so I would park right by the entrance in the faculty lot since my parking spot in the student lot was literally as far away from the school and, subsequently, from my classroom, as could be. Five minute walk versus thirty second walk. Obviously I wasn’t supposed to do this but I had gotten away with it enough times that it became a habit. One day I encountered one of the school security guards in the faculty lot who asked me my name, and told me I would have to move my car. I told him my name and was somewhat livid, admittedly, because I was super late that day, and as I drove away I made an angry wave at him like: “Alright, I’m moving it!” He then came to my first hour class and took me out to see the Principal, I thought unjustly because I hadn’t actually been allowed to do anything wrong. So I asked him why I was in trouble if they hadn’t ‘caught me in the act’ that day. He told me I wasn’t in trouble for not-parking there, but I was in trouble for flipping him off. Granted I was eighteen and acting like a rebellious dick for no real reason, but the fact that that mother fuckers mind fabricated an act that I had not committed – and which he claimed absolutely to have seen when I questioned him openly in front of the Principal – felt hugely unjust, especially since I would have had to have been a total fool to reveal my name and subsequently make an obscene gesture at an authority figure. I got community service for it, which I never actually did, so in the end I was never punished, but in my eighteen year old mind – even though it seems relatively petty now – that was a grave injustice.