North Carolina School Board Makes Valedictorians A Thing Of The Past
“We have heard from many, many schools that the competition has become very unhealthy.”
Fox News reports.
North Carolina school board votes to stop naming valedictorians
Apparently working your hardest to be the best you can be — and being recognized for the effort — is one lesson a North Carolina school board no longer believes is worth teaching.
Citing what it calls “unhealthy” competition among students, the Wake County school board is the latest in the country to make valedictorians and salutatorians a thing of the past, The News & Observer of Charlotte reports.
The school board unanimously gave initial approval last week to a policy that would prohibit high school principals from naming valedictorians and salutatorians – titles reserved for the two graduating seniors with the highest grade-point averages – after 2018, according to the newspaper.
North Carolina school board votes to stop naming valedictorians (Fox News)
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Unhealthy competition? Really???? It’s called achievement. But hey, guess excellence isn’t important and neither is hard work. Why even bother to learn anything? Let’s reward laziness and give everybody a participation trophy! In fact, why bother to have a graduations ceremony just mail out the diplomas.
I’d much prefer the idea in your last sentence…I don’t care to sit through another graduation ceremony in this life or the next.
Instead of rebuking unethical behavior in the system, they shut down the system and blame it to protect the “ethically-challenged” snowflake from being triggered….classic lefty move.