Should high schools have only one Valedictorian?

momtogirls2
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:45:49 +0000

My nephew’s school announced val and sal at graduation more as a quick afterthought. Instead they had a special award to went to the #1 boy and the #1 girl so if girls were top 1-8 and a boy was #9 it went to Girl #1 and Boy #9. The students getting it knew at least a few days before graduation. They did not give a speech but each one asked an adult member of the school to present him/her. One picked the librarian since he had been talking to the librarian for 4 years. In part because she was shocked to be asked and in part because she wanted to do a great job she did a wonderful job talking about the student. The other speaker was an Italian teacher. She mostly spoke in Italian to the student’s family who came from Italy for graduation. I’m sure the speech was great but I didn’t really understand it.