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Jasmine Shepard was the top of her class and had the highest GPA, but her Mississippi high school forced her to “share” the title with students whose GPAs were lower. The school has never done something like this before, but they’ve also never had a black valedictorian before. She and her family think it’s because of her race.

“Prior to 2016, all of Cleveland High School’s valedictorians were white,” a lawsuit against the school says, according to The Washington Post. “As a result of the school official’s unprecedented action of making an African-American student share the valedictorian award with a white student, the defendants discriminated against.”

Shepard was also forced to deliver her speech to students after the white student and would have been forced to walk behind the girl as well if Jasmine hadn’t protested. However, Jasmine doesn’t want to see backlash against the other student, saying that the young woman is “the kindest-hearted, sweetest person.”

The Cleveland School District, through an attorney, is calling the suit “frivolous” claiming the students had identical “grade point averages.”

Her mother said that it was easy to calculate the classmate’s GPA and verify if the two matched.

“These children have been attending school with each other since middle school,” she said. “We know the schedule, we know what they take, and we have a good idea where the discrepancy lies.”

“A child, when they earn honors, they are entitled to receive them,” her mother continued.

According to Jasmine’s mother, racial tensions are prevalent in the school district. In 2016, a federal judge ruled that the district failed to desegregate schools despite the 50-year-old Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision ordering them to.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/bla...n-title-with-white-student-who-had-lower-gpa/
 
That highlighted text is the reason we continue to fail.

That bitch is not a nice kind harted, or sweet person, if she were she would have declined the award and the spot to walk and speak infront of you.

SHE would have protested and said I have not earned this.

Did she.... NOPE she took what was yours and felt nothing about it
 
BitchI'llKillYa said:
That highlighted text is the reason we continue to fail.

That bitch is not a nice kind harted, or sweet person, if she were she would have declined the award and the spot to walk and speak infront of you.

SHE would have protested and said I have not earned this.

Did she.... NOPE she took what was yours and felt nothing about it
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I don't know why we keep giving them the benefit of the doubt when they continue to prove they don't deserve it.
 
This is NOT a race thing, it's an "everybody gets a trophy" thing so kids today have better looking resumes to get better scholarships and into better schools. Google "multiple valedictorians". Some schools nowadays have 10 or more valedictorians in the same high school graduating class. She has NO legal case.

Here’s how my graduating class ended up with 72 valedictorians
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/10/heres-how-my-graduating-class-ended-up-with-72-valedictorians/\

In the final week of May, 222 graduates from one Ohio school district flung their caps in the air while claiming the same title: valedictorian. One in every five graduates from Dublin City Schools went home with that highest academic honor. The district’s valedictorian roll has been rising for years. In 2014, I graduated as one of 72 valedictorians from Dublin Jerome High School.

Understandably, these numbers confuse a lot of people. How can more than one student earn the highest GPA? How can more than one give the valedictory speech at graduation? Every class can have just one highest achiever, right? Generally, that’s true. But the administrators of Dublin school district, and a growing number of school districts across the country, see things differently. In Dublin, every student earning a GPA above 4.1 is deemed a valedictorian. Traditionalists argue that this system degrades the distinction. Maybe so, but the merits of this approach are far greater. Creating a system that promotes personal achievement over unhealthy competition and that rewards hard-working students without hindering anyone’s ability to succeed should be applauded.

Some have derided the rise of multiple valedictorians as a product of the “everyone gets a trophy” era. They suggest that today’s students are coddled, and insist that recognizing so many students is simply an effort to boost our self-esteem. This view overlooks the fact that today’s students actually are more academically accomplished than previous generations. The number of graduates who took AP courses in high school has nearly doubled in the past decade. The average GPA for graduating high schoolers rose by more than 0.3 points between 1990 and 2009. And the number of students earning a perfect ACT score increased by 120 percent over the past five years. (The total number of students tested increased just 25 percent during that time.) Academic excellence can be achieved by more than one student in a class, and the numbers show that today’s multiple valedictorians are achieving more than the single valedictorians of yesterday.

It’s true that, at first glance, lowering the bar for valedictorian seems to water down the distinction. But ultimately, there’s no real harm. Students from my class still got into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, even though they shared the valedictorian title with dozens of others. The fairness of the college admissions process isn’t threatened by this trend. For college admissions officers, class rank is only the eighth most important factor in evaluating a student, falling just below counselor recommendations. A student’s grades, strength of curriculum, ACT/SAT scores and essay have much higher value, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. As Harvard’s Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons told The New York Times, the valedictorian distinction is “an anachronism. … In the world of college admissions, it makes no real difference.”

Recognizing multiple valedictorians eliminates the unhealthy competition created by a system that awards just one winner. Instead, it emphasizes student learning over student rank, rewarding us for taking academically rigorous courses without pitting us against each other. During my senior year, I took four AP and IB courses in hopes of getting my GPA high enough to earn valedictorian status. For me, the distinction was especially important because my high school allows all valedictorians to apply to be the graduation speaker, and I really enjoy public speaking.

One of our local high school principals, Bob Scott, said the speaker-selection process encourages students to push themselves academically without the competition of ranking: “This selection process gives kids who wouldn’t normally go above and beyond in school an extra incentive to do so,” he told me. “Normally, a student with just short of the 4.1 mark wouldn’t have an incentive to take the more weighted AP or IB course senior year. But giving them a chance to speak at graduation might be the push they need.”It certainly was for me. I had barely squeaked out a 4.106 GPA by the time the speech selection committee (a group of students, teachers and administrators selected by the principal) was formed in March. The committee selects one male and one female speaker — not by highest GPA, but by the most worthy speech.

On the speech tryout day, I waited in my high school library with 15 other anxious soon-to-be grads. They were all pretty good students, but they had a variety of talents; they included state championship athletes, esteemed musicians and the student who would earn the “most school spirit” superlative. My goal was to write a speech that was truly representative of our class, reflecting the common experiences of all students and recognizing the importance of athletic and artistic achievements, as well as academic. I wanted to craft an engaging speech that all of us could relate to, not just those few with extremely high GPAs. When the committee called me in, I gave my best go at it, and then went home to eat some Oreos and watch an episode of “Friends” on TBS. A few days later, I was notified that I had been chosen to speak before my peers at graduation.

When my turn came to speak on graduation day, I rose awkwardly from my seat, climbed the risers and enthusiastically delivered my speech to my classmates and their families. A fellow graduate’s father, whom I had not met, heard my address and recommended me for an internship at a political consulting firm. That internship helped me get into Ohio State University, to where I am transferring next semester. It also has the potential to shape my professional career path, giving me the kind of edge on future job applications that Harvard students don’t necessarily need.

Through the expansion of the valedictorian title, students who may not have had the opportunity to prove themselves get a chance, with no harm done to their peers. There are many academic honors that recognize multiple students: honor rolls, National Honor Society, and dean’s lists, to name a few. Academia knows that recognizing excellence in many doesn’t diminish the achievements of one. The goal of any educational program should be to push students to reach their fullest academic potential, and systems like Dublin’s do just that.
 
BitchI'llKillYa said:
That highlighted text is the reason we continue to fail.

That bitch is not a nice kind harted, or sweet person, if she were she would have declined the award and the spot to walk and speak infront of you.

SHE would have protested and said I have not earned this.

Did she.... NOPE she took what was yours and felt nothing about it
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Two problems:

1. No one knows what the GPA's were. The mother has no clue.
2. In high school graduations, as in most graduations, the salutatorian speaks first followed buy the Val. It's considered a privilege.
 
Hotlantan said:
This is NOT a race thing, it's an "everybody gets a trophy" thing so kids today have better looking resumes to get better scholarships and into better schools. Google "multiple valedictorians". Some schools nowadays have 10 or more valedictorians in the same high school graduating class. She has NO legal case.

Here’s how my graduating class ended up with 72 valedictorians
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...uating-class-ended-up-with-72-valedictorians/
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So the county that had to get sued in order to desegregate their schools 50 years after desegregation was law is not a race thing

Yea, OK
 
BitchI'llKillYa said:


Jasmine Shepard was the top of her class and had the highest GPA, but her Mississippi high school forced her to “share” the title with students whose GPAs were lower. The school has never done something like this before, but they’ve also never had a black valedictorian before. She and her family think it’s because of her race.

“Prior to 2016, all of Cleveland High School’s valedictorians were white,” a lawsuit against the school says, according to The Washington Post. “As a result of the school official’s unprecedented action of making an African-American student share the valedictorian award with a white student, the defendants discriminated against.”

Shepard was also forced to deliver her speech to students after the white student and would have been forced to walk behind the girl as well if Jasmine hadn’t protested. However, Jasmine doesn’t want to see backlash against the other student, saying that the young woman is “the kindest-hearted, sweetest person.”

The Cleveland School District, through an attorney, is calling the suit “frivolous” claiming the students had identical “grade point averages.”

Her mother said that it was easy to calculate the classmate’s GPA and verify if the two matched.

“These children have been attending school with each other since middle school,” she said. “We know the schedule, we know what they take, and we have a good idea where the discrepancy lies.”

“A child, when they earn honors, they are entitled to receive them,” her mother continued.

According to Jasmine’s mother, racial tensions are prevalent in the school district. In 2016, a federal judge ruled that the district failed to desegregate schools despite the 50-year-old Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision ordering them to.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/bla...n-title-with-white-student-who-had-lower-gpa/
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One more example of us giving way to our humanity. Fuck that mediocre cac and her entire family.
 
BitchI'llKillYa said:
That highlighted text is the reason we continue to fail.

That bitch is not a nice kind harted, or sweet person, if she were she would have declined the award and the spot to walk and speak infront of you.

SHE would have protested and said I have not earned this.

Did she.... NOPE she took what was yours and felt nothing about it
Click to expand...
This. Her forgiving ways pisses me off more than the cac upstaging her, the cac is only being a cac.
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
So the county that had to get sued in order to desegregate their schools 50 years after desegregation was law is not a race thing

Yea, OK
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I'm not arguing Brown vs Board, I'm explaining why schools today have multiple valedictorians. But you keep shooting at the messenger... I am done. :dunno:
 
BitchI'llKillYa said:
That highlighted text is the reason we continue to fail.

That bitch is not a nice kind harted, or sweet person, if she were she would have declined the award and the spot to walk and speak infront of you.

SHE would have protested and said I have not earned this.

Did she.... NOPE she took what was yours and felt nothing about it
Click to expand...

Spectrum said:
I don't know why we keep giving them the benefit of the doubt when they continue to prove they don't deserve it.
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Jay-Vill said:
Because we are dumb.
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FLoss said:
Stop with this bullshit black people. :angry:
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Quek9 said:
This. Her forgiving ways pisses me off more than the cac upstaging her, the cac is only being a cac.
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Im starting to believe we are just built like that; i mean after all the shit they have pulled but we just be like that's cool, is alright; it's gotta be we just not built like them.......
 
Day_Carver said:
They have been dumb for 100 of years; they just have had the entire country and every system support them; easy to look smart when u have that.......
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I know they always have been dumb but the last few years it seems like they are going further down the hole in dumbness
 
Day_Carver said:
Im starting to believe we are just built like that; i mean after all the shit they have pulled but we just be like that's cool, is alright; it's gotta be we just not built like them.......
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We are compassionate people.

But we have been conditioned to treat cacs like this.

For 400 years we have been taught we aren't shit have non history non future of we do well it's because we are one of the good ones

We have been taught hate ourselves.
 
It's so fucked up, and par for the course for Mississippi Crackaz, but she need to take her brainy ass on and do
well with her V.D. and never look back, moms can keep up the lawsuit battle but if the daughter lets this fuck with
her psyche then them crackaz achieved exactly what they wanted. :smh:
 
Hotlantan said:
This is NOT a race thing, it's an "everybody gets a trophy" thing so kids today have better looking resumes to get better scholarships and into better schools. Google "multiple valedictorians". Some schools nowadays have 10 or more valedictorians in the same high school graduating class. She has NO legal case.

Here’s how my graduating class ended up with 72 valedictorians
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/10/heres-how-my-graduating-class-ended-up-with-72-valedictorians/\

In the final week of May, 222 graduates from one Ohio school district flung their caps in the air while claiming the same title: valedictorian. One in every five graduates from Dublin City Schools went home with that highest academic honor. The district’s valedictorian roll has been rising for years. In 2014, I graduated as one of 72 valedictorians from Dublin Jerome High School.

Understandably, these numbers confuse a lot of people. How can more than one student earn the highest GPA? How can more than one give the valedictory speech at graduation? Every class can have just one highest achiever, right? Generally, that’s true. But the administrators of Dublin school district, and a growing number of school districts across the country, see things differently. In Dublin, every student earning a GPA above 4.1 is deemed a valedictorian. Traditionalists argue that this system degrades the distinction. Maybe so, but the merits of this approach are far greater. Creating a system that promotes personal achievement over unhealthy competition and that rewards hard-working students without hindering anyone’s ability to succeed should be applauded.

Some have derided the rise of multiple valedictorians as a product of the “everyone gets a trophy” era. They suggest that today’s students are coddled, and insist that recognizing so many students is simply an effort to boost our self-esteem. This view overlooks the fact that today’s students actually are more academically accomplished than previous generations. The number of graduates who took AP courses in high school has nearly doubled in the past decade. The average GPA for graduating high schoolers rose by more than 0.3 points between 1990 and 2009. And the number of students earning a perfect ACT score increased by 120 percent over the past five years. (The total number of students tested increased just 25 percent during that time.) Academic excellence can be achieved by more than one student in a class, and the numbers show that today’s multiple valedictorians are achieving more than the single valedictorians of yesterday.

It’s true that, at first glance, lowering the bar for valedictorian seems to water down the distinction. But ultimately, there’s no real harm. Students from my class still got into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, even though they shared the valedictorian title with dozens of others. The fairness of the college admissions process isn’t threatened by this trend. For college admissions officers, class rank is only the eighth most important factor in evaluating a student, falling just below counselor recommendations. A student’s grades, strength of curriculum, ACT/SAT scores and essay have much higher value, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. As Harvard’s Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons told The New York Times, the valedictorian distinction is “an anachronism. … In the world of college admissions, it makes no real difference.”

Recognizing multiple valedictorians eliminates the unhealthy competition created by a system that awards just one winner. Instead, it emphasizes student learning over student rank, rewarding us for taking academically rigorous courses without pitting us against each other. During my senior year, I took four AP and IB courses in hopes of getting my GPA high enough to earn valedictorian status. For me, the distinction was especially important because my high school allows all valedictorians to apply to be the graduation speaker, and I really enjoy public speaking.

One of our local high school principals, Bob Scott, said the speaker-selection process encourages students to push themselves academically without the competition of ranking: “This selection process gives kids who wouldn’t normally go above and beyond in school an extra incentive to do so,” he told me. “Normally, a student with just short of the 4.1 mark wouldn’t have an incentive to take the more weighted AP or IB course senior year. But giving them a chance to speak at graduation might be the push they need.”It certainly was for me. I had barely squeaked out a 4.106 GPA by the time the speech selection committee (a group of students, teachers and administrators selected by the principal) was formed in March. The committee selects one male and one female speaker — not by highest GPA, but by the most worthy speech.

On the speech tryout day, I waited in my high school library with 15 other anxious soon-to-be grads. They were all pretty good students, but they had a variety of talents; they included state championship athletes, esteemed musicians and the student who would earn the “most school spirit” superlative. My goal was to write a speech that was truly representative of our class, reflecting the common experiences of all students and recognizing the importance of athletic and artistic achievements, as well as academic. I wanted to craft an engaging speech that all of us could relate to, not just those few with extremely high GPAs. When the committee called me in, I gave my best go at it, and then went home to eat some Oreos and watch an episode of “Friends” on TBS. A few days later, I was notified that I had been chosen to speak before my peers at graduation.

When my turn came to speak on graduation day, I rose awkwardly from my seat, climbed the risers and enthusiastically delivered my speech to my classmates and their families. A fellow graduate’s father, whom I had not met, heard my address and recommended me for an internship at a political consulting firm. That internship helped me get into Ohio State University, to where I am transferring next semester. It also has the potential to shape my professional career path, giving me the kind of edge on future job applications that Harvard students don’t necessarily need.

Through the expansion of the valedictorian title, students who may not have had the opportunity to prove themselves get a chance, with no harm done to their peers. There are many academic honors that recognize multiple students: honor rolls, National Honor Society, and dean’s lists, to name a few. Academia knows that recognizing excellence in many doesn’t diminish the achievements of one. The goal of any educational program should be to push students to reach their fullest academic potential, and systems like Dublin’s do just that.
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largebillsonlyplease said:
So the county that had to get sued in order to desegregate their schools 50 years after desegregation was law is not a race thing

Yea, OK
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Exactly. They've never done this before but they do it when they have the first black valedictorian in MISSIFUCKINGSIPPI?
 
Why is she saying the cac is sweet? Fuck this cave cac...finish that hoix off on the news.. now that u have the position to do so...we have to develop that Killa instinct.. brah
 
killagram said:
Why is she saying the cac is sweet? Fuck this cave cac...finish that hoix off on the news.. now that u have the position to do so...we have to develop that Killa instinct.. brah
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Some black folk just ain't got that finishing move in'em .....:dunno: ..... already stomped her out academically .....
 

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