Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Valedictorian and then the rest
So the blog seems sort of dry, so I might as well just write one to get something going. As we should already know, our school only allows for one valedictorian in our school and everyone else is usually thrown under the bus, except the unbelievable smart ten. Some schools, as stated in Talbot's Best In Class, has multiple valedictorians and some has an abundant amount of them. What I'm trying to ask, or get at, is whether or not it is a good idea to promote this type of competition between peers and friends to become rank one. Should we just not have a ranking system in our school so then no one has to cry and mourn over all their efforts to become valedictorian only to get crushed by some supernatural intellectual(Vincent please teach me) who never really tried? Or should we keep the valedictorian system as it is because people could be recognized as the top student? I'd like to have this thing blowing up, so post all the comments in the world. I want to see what unravels from this.
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I believe that there should be a valedictorian and a salutatorian in our school. The student who works the hardest and preforms the best in school should be awarded and recognized. If we allow only ten or more people to be recognized then the person who worked so hard to be number one doesn't feel as achieved as if they were recognized as the valedictorian. In Talbot's Best In Class, the student who found the loophole and ended up winning the valedictorian should have received the award without any trouble. The student worked hard to find another way to maximize his opportunity to be successful. His creative thinking allowed him to ultimately be recognized as the valedictorian.
ReplyDeleteHaving a valedictorian, in my opinion, promotes healthy competition among students in many schools. Giving an award that honors and recognizes the best student is a great way to motivate students to do good in school. Sometimes this form of competition can be taken too seriously, causing negative situations to occur in schools. I don't think valedictorian should be something that causes so much controversy because it's just a title. If students get too competitive trying to become valedictorian it can cause unnecessary tension between peers and friends. However, if people can realize that valedictorian is not something to get overly aggressive about then there could be friendly competition among students.
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