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Do not abolish Valedictorian/Salutatorian in VB Schools

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Rebekah
8 years ago Featured

Hard work in school pays off in the long term. Colleges pay attention to this hard work. Specific scholarships are awarded based on this achievement. If there's no reason for kids to work hard and achieve, what are we asking from the next generation?

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Ammon
8 years ago Featured

Trying to reach for excellence helped me develop study skills that I needed later in my education and work.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

What are our children going to become if academic expectation are continually lowered? High expectations=higher levels of success.

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Natalie
8 years ago

Honor the high achievers and hard working students.

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Sowjanya
8 years ago

No

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Helen
8 years ago

Kids should be recognize For their hard work when others just scoot on

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Deborah Torrence
8 years ago

Students that are driven and work hard should be recognized for their achievement.

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John Rivers
8 years ago

Recognize our superior students!! Not sure how this even got to a vote. Terrible idea.

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Jing zhang
8 years ago

The culture that calls hard-working students nerds and laughs at them must be corrected.

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Connie McFarland
8 years ago

Stop enabling students to not care about their grades!

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Desh Ranjan
8 years ago

Valedictorian and Salutatorian honors are motivation for students to excel. Removing them takes away some motivation. I am opposed to it.

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Ruizhen Hu
8 years ago

Students should be awarded and recognized for their hard work. Don’t take away incentive or meritocracy. Inspire them in many ways to reach high.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

keep valedictorian

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Carol ann Dick
8 years ago

That would be a terrible thing to do!!!!!

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Fengying zhu
8 years ago

Do away rankle first or second , is other way to encourage kids not study , is other way to punish those study hard kids . Kids ‘s Job is studying learning , have mental they are looking forward. As percents, we encourage kids to have anbicius and dream. Only looser they do not want know they are looser or those looser parents have some mentality.

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Lisa Bailey
8 years ago Featured

Listen to the survey participants! How can you vote to eliminate when the people said to keep? If you recognize top athletes, why do you not wish to recognize top scholars?? If you want to "level" the playing field, then get rid of online AP classes....do two sets of rankings for schools with academies.

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Dawn Zhao
8 years ago

Academic excellence shall be promoted and awarded in all possible forms.

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Donna Hameed
8 years ago

This would be a colossal mistake.

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James
8 years ago

Keep valedictorian. Don’t lower the bar.

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Dean McDonald
8 years ago

We are quickly becoming the society predicted Kurt Vonnegut's short story Harrison Bergeron. Oddly, that also means students will never be exposed to that story