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Grew up in a college town surrounded by farmland. I graduated from hs in the mid/late 70's, our parents were most definitely NOT part of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation. That being said, there were a few different tracks. Some kids took cosmetology, some vo/ag, some took the most rigorous courses they could, as they intended to not only get a BS, but to get a PhD. Every year there was a kerfuffle regarding valedictorian, etc. basically because there was the divide over "whoever gets the highest GPA should get valedictorian" versus "but why should a cosmetology student get valedictorian while a kid with a much more difficult coursework doesn't get it?" Nowadays, with AP courses and the like, a kid can be knocked out of contention by one tenth of a point. With 500 in a typical class in our local hs, my vote would be for recognition for anyone with a GPA over 4.0. I don't care what you call them.
And I don't know about y'all, but in some ways my kids worked harder in high school than I ever did-5 AP courses each (we didn't have those), reading books in 8th grade that I read in 11th grade, and taking algebra in 8th grade. Now I will say that the area that I was ahead of my kids was the ability to write research papers. But then again, we had very little creative writing (thank goodness, how I hated that, but that's me), while my kids had quite a bit of it, while the kind of writing they would need in the real world and college was not emphasized as much.
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