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    Wow, Ashley. frown



    Oh-- and as an update to my previous post, come to find out, my DD wasn't Salutatorian.




    Nope.




    She was VALEDICTORIAN.

    Not that it changes much, but it does sort of put the icing right up there on the top of the entire thing. Like, you know-- the fact that they couldn't be bothered to even TELL her what her actual, up-to-date rank was, just for starters, I suppose. We found out because she called to ask about something else entirely. Shows what they actually value, doesn't it? It's certainly not "excellence" at any rate. smirk


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    Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
    Wow, Ashley. frown



    Oh-- and as an update to my previous post, come to find out, my DD wasn't Salutatorian.




    Nope.




    She was VALEDICTORIAN.

    Not that it changes much, but it does sort of put the icing right up there on the top of the entire thing. Like, you know-- the fact that they couldn't be bothered to even TELL her what her actual, up-to-date rank was, just for starters, I suppose. We found out because she called to ask about something else entirely. Shows what they actually value, doesn't it? It's certainly not "excellence" at any rate. smirk

    And they didn't even make graduation an event where their Valedictorian could be included...what a shame.

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    Well, the mind-boggling part to me is that they... don't... seem to think that which student is #1, #2, or something else entirely... even... matters at commencement to begin with. Well-- not enough to worry about figuring it out, anyway.

    Yeah. So "honoring" graduates was done using the previous semester's GPA and ranking (in December). Who cares if that is actually correct, anyway??

    "The System" doesn't report final rank until some weeks later, evidently.

    The fact that nobody we communicated with seemed to find this the least bit strange is BEYOND bizarre to me.





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