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Of course, can’t you tell ;)</p>
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Severe - no food for a week, only water…;)</p>
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Yes, he is a senior.</p>
<p>Thanks all, this will wrap it up :)</p>
<p>I have to laugh at the absurdity. My daughter has a horrible time with math and we were both very happy the other day because she actually got a 79 on a test – only .5 under a B-. Believe me, that’s progress. </p>
<p>Maybe we should throw a party. lol</p>
<p>Probably warrants an announcement in the local newspaper. </p>
<p>Heck, it might even be bigger news than the VP debate tonight on Fox!</p>
<p>You should expect a phone call from Sweden, I think some of the Nobel Prizes are still coming out. </p>
<p>I’d say either a TV mini-series or a major motion picture.</p>
<p>Kelowna - I kind of know how you feel. DS decided coming into high school on a few goals - one of which was graduating first in his class (these goals were only shared with DH and I). Of course he was not the only one to have this goal and one classmate was very vocal about it. All through 9th and 10th DS was ranked first then after grades came out after 1st semester junior year (DS earned a 4.792 on a 4.0 scale) he dropped to 2nd. He thought it must be some kind of error, the next day he came home and told me that the other student had figured out how many AP online math and science courses he would have to take to surpass DS. DS and I were kind of like, if you want it that bad to plan your schedule around someone else’s, then go for it. Unfortunately (or fortunately for DS) other student is not strong in English and had a rough semester, and DS is ranked 1st again. Sometimes I think you just have to say “SERIOUSLY?!”.</p>
<p>Seriously ClassicRockerDad ?</p>
<p>There was a piece a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal re: why are some people plainly mean online, while in real life they are decent folks. Let’s hope you are less mean in real life…did you even read this thread or are you coming here to spit on me just based on my today’s post?</p>
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Was this the article?</p>
<p>[Why</a> We Are So Rude on Facebook and Other Social Media - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578030351784405148.html]Why”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578030351784405148.html)</p>
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<p>That’s congrats to your son, isn’t it? Or are we congratulating the party-thrower for declaring victory during the 7th inning of the game?</p>
<p>My son managed to completely avoid the artificial competition with his classmates. He graduated high school in 3 years and was ranked #1 in both the junior and senior classes yet was not eligible to be valedictorian because that was reserved for 4-year students. He was thrilled to not have to give the valedictorian speech and his #2 and #3-ranked companions from his junior class were happy to see their rank bumped up at the end of junior year when he graduated.</p>
<p>“That’s congrats to your son, isn’t it?”
Yes it was to the son…I think it is crazy that we would celebrate others’ failures and I remembered your story well.</p>
<p>Kelowna, I think a couple of these posts have been attempts at humor. I don’t think they were meant to be mean.</p>
<p>so my parents aren’t really the worst. I’m glad to hear.</p>
<p>I also think ClassicRockerDad was kidding around. I remember many of his posts in the past were funny.</p>
<p>Wow, can’t believe anybody would do something like this.</p>
<p>For other families fretting over Val/Sal, you should know that at our hs some of the very best students didn’t quite make it into the top 5%. They had mostly As, but many of them were in unweighted music etc electives. They still fared well in college acceptances. One in particular had an Ivy acceptance (or maybe more than one) plus some impressive national awards.</p>
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<p>Whoa, I was just kidding around, as were you. I found your story about someone throwing a party over this trivia to be absurdly funny, like I thought I’d seen everything. </p>
<p>No offense intended, really, and sorry if you didn’t find my post funny. My bad.</p>
<p>This lady is such a jerk! I hope your son beats the girl out and gets Valedictorian. Then you can throw an “I still beat <em>girls name</em> for Valedictorian even with a B” party.</p>
<p>a C is fine
a B is better
and an A does not guarantee success</p>
<p>These are the words of my grandfather.</p>
<p>@ ClassicRockerDad - apologies accepted and no, I didn’t find your post funny, obviously.
English is my second language so maybe I am reading too much into it ;)</p>
<p>The whole idea of this thread and my posting here is to share with you something that I thought happened in movies only, not in the real world. But I guess those screenwriters do take their ideas from somewhere…</p>
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<p>Whoa… not kiddo’s fault that mom’s got issues.</p>
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<p>The mom of the val for my daughter’s high school class was on the school board and had access to the computerized weighted GPAs to be able to figure out how many online courses her own daughter had to take to come out #1. </p>
<p>However, to “beat” the OP, I still remember the Texas cheerleader murder…a tiny bit more competitive than throwing a party for a rival’s “B”. Just my opinion, of course.</p>
<p>This is among the many reasons more and more schools are doing away with class rank.</p>
<p>Wonder if the mom/party-thrower happens to read cc. She might see how petty this looks…</p>