Fun fact: “Valedictorian” does not refer to the student who graduates at the top of the class. It refers to the person who delivers the final, closing statement (“valediction”) at the graduation ceremony, who is often – but not always – the student who graduates at the top of the class.
Several years ago I stopped receiving data from a company. They said that nothing had changed on their end, and that their system automatically sent the data every month.
On of their accounts was on Dike Road. Their system thought that was dirty and would not send the file to us. :rolleyes:
(They did eventually correct the problem.)
One has to be an extra special kind of stupid to not graduate in the top of a class on one (or two if a twin).
I know of an entire fraternity that made the Dean’s List.
My favourite example of a naughty-word filter that’s not smart enough is in a mobile game I play called Love Nikki - it’s a dressup game, which lets you create outfits to be shared with the other users. The filter for the descriptions is…very interesting.
Not only does it have no sense of context, not only is it subject to the Scunthorpe problem, but it’s also got words filtered that make using the clothing’s names, stats, and in-game description difficult. (There are workarounds - spaces, misspellings, and accented characters are most common.)
Problem censored strings include av (meaning ‘adult video’), sm, loli, sex, tit, ‘ligen’ (inexplicable!)…and a bunch more, but these are the ones I’ve had reason to run foul of… The words have, save, gave, rave, small, title, competition, diligence, and the Lolita, Unisex, and Sexy tags…all require workarounds to use them in the descriptions.
Annoyingly, they don’t apply any filter to the usernames, so, I can’t say ‘I have to work diligently for the title’, but I can run across someone named slutpuppy while I work di*tly for the *le.
The software didn’t bake and decorate the cake though. Human intervention should’ve filled in the missing word.
I also had the unworthy thought that summa cum laude was a slightly dubious appellation when applied to a home schooled student. Reminded me of a Labrador of ours that graduated at the top of her obedience class.*
*The other dog in the class stopped showing up.
Well, some come quietly, summa cum laude.
OK - at my daughter’s high school, there were GPA ranges for Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude. Graduates were awarded different colored cords depending upon their averages. Theoretically, everyone could have been Summa.
Software designers are people too.
Software designers who design incompetent “naughty language” filters are idiots as well.
As to how a home schooled student might receive a cum laude (with honor), magna cum laude (with high honor), or summa cum laude (with highest honor) phrase, maybe the South Carolina student was “enrolled” through an “umbrella school”, through which grades and attendance, diplomas, and honors are recorded, and academic records are reported. In Alabama it is not uncommon for an umbrella school to “cover” quite a few home schooled students.
Internet filtering is no joke. Beaver College changed their name to Arcadia University in 2001 partly because prospective students were having trouble finding their website via web search.
What does a homeschool graduation even look like? (Besides sad!)
Does he get all the awards? Who claps? What about the hat and tassel?
Is there a prom? Does the band play?
I am just imagining a thousand things now!
I’m reminded of this thread about a pool.
One of my colleagues put a blocker on her home computer, and found out that she couldn’t access the Pharmacy Times website because it was about drugs. I also heard about an elementary school whose kids couldn’t access marsexploration.com because it had s-e-x in it. As for me, a few years ago I was on vacation and couldn’t access a fiber arts website because the phrase “female genital mutilation” was somewhere in the message board.
:smack:
Anyway, someone on Facebook said that the chances are, the bakery has a list of words that they are not allowed to put on a cake under any circumstances, and “cum” was one of them.
But sumos, they are too big to not cum laude.
There was a time when I used to go around calling random people “homo sapiens” or “heterosexual.” Almost got my ass kicked a few times.
Heh heh. Heh heh. “Pube-licks.”
This wins the thread.
Actually I think the decorating IS all automated. Still a request being censored should trigger an automatic notification that such is occurring.
Do some home school programs have “virtual” classes with standardized assessments shared across their populations? I was under the impression that such is the case and that the honor would be based on relative performance on those assessments. Could be wrong.
When people think of homeschooling, they think of a one on one thing with parents teaching their kids, but there are a bunch of home school situations where it’s a bunch of families together. So this kid could have been like one of 20 or 30 in his class. And most home schools use standardized curricula and lesson plans created by academic companies for the homeschooling market. So it’s not all just ad hoc.
Stephen Colbert went crazy with this last night. They even made up a set of six cupcakes with “CUM” written out in icing on top to make up for the lack, and said they were sending a box o the kid.
He also made Thudlow Boink’s “Pube-Licks” joke.