high school girl doesn't get to be valedictorian

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

My hometown has junior high schools... Elementary is K-4, Middle school is 5-6, junior high is 7-8 and high school is 9-12.

That was "new" when I was a sophomore... before then, Elementary was K-5, Middle school was 6-7, jr. high was 8-9 and HS was 10-12.

Wow, that's a new one to me. So everyone attends a minimum of four schools, then? Middle school AND junior high?

[Munchkin03]

10 years ago, my HS class didn't have valedictorians...just summa cum laude for the top 1%, magna for the top 3%, and cum laude for the top 10%. It's funny that what seemed so important 10 years ago doesn't matter now.

RE: college graduation rates, the person who said that 4 years is still the standard for private schools is absolutely right. Where in a public school there's a good possibility of having classes fill up, that just isn't happening in most private colleges. If a class I needed to graduate got cancelled, then I could always liase with the professor to do an independent study on the same topic.

I went to an IB school, and every diploma holder gets a year of advanced standing at most schools. My classmates who went to Florida schools all tried to get out in 3 years, which I do not understand whatsoever. I was offered a year as well, but if I had done that, there was so much that I couldn't do--study abroad, taking classes at RISD, being PanHell president, etc etc etc. Who wants to do college in 3 years? Also, most of those kids had full-tuition scholarships, so it wasn't as if they were saving their parents any money, either...weird kids.