How dare you be smarter than everyone else!
Via Tammy Bruce.
Once again, Texas seeks to punish those who are smarter than everyone else.
Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year. In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school’s history.
It’s still not enough to make her the valedictorian, which brings a one-year college scholarship from the state. Her closest competitor’s GPA is 5.64. No one disputes that she’s the top student in her class numerically. The problem rests with another number entirely.
Anjali rocketed through high school in only three years.
But a school district policy states: “The valedictorian shall be the eligible student with the highest weighted grade-point average for four years of high school.”
Well, at least things have not changed much in the last 30 years.
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DUDE!
RUELS are RUELS. They have to be obeyed. There can never be a deviance from the rules or chaos would over take us all! Think about it. It would be awful…cats and dogs living together, coffee that would cost $5 a cup, gas and milk at $5 a gallon. WE HAVE to obey the rules for the sake of the rules. never mind that they might not fit all situations, because given enough time our benevolent leaders will protect us from ourselves by making new rules to cover the odd situation. Till then we have to do as they wish and ignore that annoying little voice in our heads. We don’t know what is best for us, but they do.