Word: valedictorian
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...cares if you were high school valedictorian...
...Wayne managed to change the speech habits of a good part of the English-speaking world, and he wasn't a valedictorian...
...honest, not being valedictorian hasn't mattered in my life. Which is why, perhaps, I read the story of Paul Siemens '98 with such disbelief. Paul, in case you don't know, is suing his school district for unfairness. Not because he was forbidden from taking an important class, not because he was denied help because of his race, but because he thinks their system of determining valedictorians is unfair...
...that he thinks that somehow the school fudged the numbers to keep him out. No, Paul disapproves of the system they used to determine the valedictorian--i.e. double-counting the first semester of senior year...
...taking the step of a lawsuit because, he says, not being valedictorian will hurt him when it comes to winning fellowships and finding jobs. And besides, he feels, he deserves...