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She will never speak as Valedictorian in front of her class and their relatives again.

Big whoop. Nobody much remembers that kind of stuff two weeks later, let alone two years or twenty years. It's the kind of things mom's love, and underachievers in life bring up when they sit at bars alone in the early evening giving the questions on Jeopardy on tv.

If you talk to them, invariably they will tell you how all their friends say they should try out for Jeopardy, but when pressed for some names of some of these friends, they get confused.

"Big whoop. Nobody much remembers that kind of stuff two weeks later, let alone two years or twenty years. It's the kind of things mom's love, and underachievers in life bring up when they sit at bars alone in the early evening giving the questions on Jeopardy on tv."

Yeah. Freedom sheemdom.

They ought to just stop allowing students to be represented at their own graduation.

In fact they ought to just abolish commencement altogether. Who remembers it, anyways? Unless any event is guaranteed to etched equally and equitably in the minds of every attendee, involved high achievers and losers alike, it should just be done away with.

The schools can just mail out the diplomas to an ACLU-approved list of graduates, since that's all that matters about graduation.