Do away with computer reviews, Restaurant reviews, and Consumer Reports.
Abolish competition - reward incompetence... be stupid.
And I recall when the Army did away with the ‘Distinguish Honor Graduate’ spot in leadership schools. Probably for the same reason others opined here...not enough non-white males pulling the glory.
Absolutely typical dummocrap maneuver: when the minorities can’t make the grade, eliminate any rules or standards. Bingo, problem solved. The fact that this fosters mediocrity doesn’t bother them a bit. Makes the animals on the farm more tractable, easier to feed ‘em the dummocrap lies and not have them questioned.
Some people just want to see the world burn.
What an inspiring graduation speech: “There are no winners here, only losers enjoying the equity of ignorance.”
Parents ought to sue.
Yeah...and here I thought they were supposed to be PREPARING students for the REAL world. Silly me.
I’m sure China, Europe, India, etc. will all follow suit ;p
Idiots. Life is competition. This is just more of the Marxist garbage, if *somebody* can’t be Valedictorian then *nobody* can be....lower ALL boats. SMH.
You get what you pay for
How about we just do away with public schools
The Bee has such an easy job these days. The articles write themselves.
even if that were true, you STILL acknowledge superior work and achievement...
unless you are a sniveling rat that is
After reading all the comments it made wonder if the military still gives a medal for “Courageous Restraint”. I would include the picture, but don’t know how to put them on here.
“Cherry Creek School District will no longer highlight valedictorians at graduation because ‘learning is not a competition.’”
No. Cherry Creek School District will no longer highlight valedictorians because the people in charge believe that excellence is racist.
The school systems nationally have been trying to remove success within their instructions for years. That could constitute someone with an active enough mind and a way of sorting out improvement to disagree with their idiocy of the failure of control with facts and “questions.”
The government doesn’t want free thinkers unless they approve of and build them for future leadership. So the goal is not success, it is participation and the lesser efforts to get by than exceed the expectation. Those exceeding are separated and assassinated. This used to be called behavior modification.
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I don’t think CA has had public high school valedictorians for years. Maybe since the 1990s.
Will Tucker or Hannity have the principle on tonight?
I went to nerd school. We never did valedictorian. It’s really pointless, nobody really cares about what you did in high school. And I doubt there’s really much in the way of competition, 99% of students know they aren’t in the running and don’t care. And for the ones that are the AP classes are the real reward anyway.
Next year they’ll want to eliminate ‘position #1’.
Whatever we do, lets not celebrate excellence. Easier to embrace mediocrity.....proves you is woke!
Pervasive grade inflation and social promotion make ranking increasingly difficult. Everyone gets A’s and nobody flunks.
Ours did, but the kids know who the top two are. My oldest is one of them and you better bet your butt I’ll have a great big old sign in front of the house congratulating him as such!!!