06-02-2013, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by kaeb
For me, at least, it had the opposite effect—when 1/4 of the class is a valedictorian, it really doesn't mean anything to be a valedictorian, and I think most of us knew/realized that. Besides, by that point, we already knew where we were going to college, which really kind of established the hierarchy of intelligence, as awful as that sounds.
edit: maybe that's not the opposite effect, I'm not sure. Eh, oh well.
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Which is why giving everybody a trophy is false self-esteem.
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