How Tracy Flick.
If being “jipped” of being sole valedictorian actually scars you for life, you have mental problems. Part of being a sane adult is the ability to do what psychologists call, in technical terms, “getting over it.” If you can’t do it, you’re psychologically disturbed.
At least she isn’t coming to Yale.
Who was the young lady who went ballistic BEFORE winning that spelling bee?
Who?
Oh the horror. She has to SHARE!!! Oh boo hoo hoo.
Oh this is soooooooo true!
And that is my point. Whatever the actual merits of the case, the greater damage is bringing it. It’s not like being co-valedictorian is (presumably) any less impressive than being sole valedictorian. It’s not as though it would be incorrect to put simply “valedictorian” on your CV/resume.
It’s not as though any future employer is going to check with your high school that you were sole- or co-valedictorian.
Maybe it’s precisely because she hasn’t done sport, one of the main subjects that teaches you about teamwork, and winning and losing, that this girl hasn’t learnt that it is important to be gracious in victory as well as defeat.
I wonder how the other two students named co-valedictorian must feel about this situation. If I were them, I would be just bloody furious at the idea of another student suing to take away an honor awarded to me.
Considering how she has already been accepted for enrollment at places like Harvard, I can only conclude that she’s doing this because she doesn’t want to share the valedictorian spotlight with anyone else, no matter how deserving the other might be. She comes across as being petty and selfish.
This girl’s parents really dropped the ball here.
I have not the words for this girl.
Oh, wait. Yes, I do. Please commence with sucking my huge cock of disgust, you spoiled, whining twatdropping.
It’s an old saying, but somehow it’s never overused–some fucking people.
"Hornstine, the 18-year-old daughter of a state Superior Court judge, has asked a federal judge to intervene
She said she would be asking for $200,000 in compensatory damages and $2.5 million in punitive damages."
Looks like a motive, means and possiblity to me. For a couple of million bucks…daddy’s a judge, his friend is intervening, etc. 
Hopefully her speech at graduation will suck and all the kids in the audience will boo her. And then, as she crumples into tears and dashes off the stage, she’ll trip on the stairs and fall flat on her face. Maybe her graduation robe will be pushed up in the process, revealing her granny panties to everyone in the universe.
She’ll be crushed by the humiliation, but at least at least she’ll still be the valedictorian!
(Guinastasia - Tracy Flick is the lead female character in the film “Election”)
Exactly. She’s *still * valedictorian, but so are the other two students. She’s just a spoiled, selfish brat who never learned to share. What a bitch.
Well, when I graduated (why does that have a “Sonny, back in my day…” ring to it?) I was fourth in my class because I got B’s in gym and band. When DrJ graduated, he wasn’t in the top whatever who made speeches there because they didn’t weight classes, and the girl who was valedictorian was a library aid so as not to risk dropping her average.
You know what, though? We still each had more scholarship money than any of our classmates. Being valedictorian is meaningless. Being a valedictorian and a buck will get you a cup of coffee. Nobody, even you, will care much past September.
These other kids have worked just as hard for their 4.0’s (or above, if there’s a weighted system) as she has, and they deserve recognition as much as she does. She has no financial losses here (some places give you an extra $1000 for being valedictorian, but it’s not like she’s even being knocked out of that.) As for her humiliation, there’s nothing embarrassing to her in this but her own actions.
I have to echo the rest of you: what an unbelievably stupid, self-centered twatnugget.
umm…make that opportunity I knew that didn’t sound correct when I posted it. :rolleyes:
I used to get a kick outta folks who would brag to me about their GPA. I would often ask what courses and profs just to fuck w/'em.
One time this kids w/ his 4.0 was bitching about having to take a couple of PhysEd classes (golf and typing IIRC) during the summer.
I had 18hrs. that summer ( two calc. classes, an advanced bio. two comp./sci and a physics) and this fucking twit is a general studies major or maybe kinesiology…WTF
I would compare my piddlin’ 3.75 to his 4.0 any time.
As far as the bitch in the lawsuit goes. You are all correct in the fact that she’s probably fucking up. BUT if they actually award her with a big fat settlement, I doubt she’ll give a shit.
I’ve never been to one of my high school reunions.
Didn’t we also Pit that person, when the story was topical?
t-keela: Typing is a PhysEd course? 
It’s the other way around, I fear.
Any school that dares turn her down will surely face the wrong end a major expensive and very public law suit.
Don’t schools reserve the right to turn down applications for any or no reason, such as being a sue-happy bitch?
As CCL alludes to above, I was moderately screwed in this regard. Not only were our classes not weighted, but rank was figured on a 100-point scale, not 4.0. I was third in the class at about 98.1, with about 0.2 separating each of us. (We all three had 4.0s.) However, a glance at the schedule showed that where I filled up the holes in my schedule with extra science, language, and self-designed computer classes, they deliberately took things that were not graded, since anything less than a 99 in a class would have pulled them down.
The administration recognized this, and tried to change it so that those who had 4.0s were “co-valedictorians”. This was met with swift and immediate action by the parents of our valedictorian, those of the last two years’ valedictorians, and parents of putative valedictorians from other classes. The school folded faster than Superman on the proverbial laundry day.
My mother told me she was willing to go raise hell for me, if I wanted her to. I just laughed. I said that if it means that much to them, it’s not worth being an asshole about. Yes, I wanted to speak at graduation, and yes, it would have meant an automatic extra $500 in scholarship money from UK, but I already had the best scholarship UK gives out, and this let me sit in the back and heckle.
#1 (I understand) suffered something of a breakdown before getting herself back together and getting through law school. I got an invitation to her graduation. #2 taught at our high school for a year and didn’t get her contract renewed even in a time and place desparate for teachers; I don’t know what she’s up to now.
Now, nine years after we graduated, it’s safe to say that nobody cares what our class rank was. In fact, no one has cared for about eight years and eleven months.
Dr. J
Rilichiam- “t-keela: Typing is a PhysEd course?”
Most college degrees require some basic computer skills. BTW the class was keyboarding, sorry. Actually, typing is a harder class.
What DrJ said…these twits will take the easiest classes allowed for credit and then brag about their GPA, as if that is proof of their intelligence.
Rilichiam = Rilchiam
Always preview, even though the first time I tried the hamsters ate my post. Should’ve just quoted or copied, huh?
Yeah, but keyboarding is a physical exertion along the lines of golf or tennis?