Should high schools have only one Valedictorian?

theloniusmonk
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:43:25 +0000

Gaming is not between the kid choosing the sport or newspaper path vs the one choosing the val/gpa path. It’s betwee kids choosing the val path. If you participate in a sport at the high schools here in the bay area, you can’t take a 7th period, so that leaves one less ap/honors class, similarly if you do the paper, journalism is required, non-honors. People choosing this path know the choices they made.

But once you get the kids that are going to take all the AP and honors class they can, they evaluate everything wrt to GPA hit, and so you’ll try for the easier teacher, argue grades. Given all that most high schools now do not rank.