Selfish, whiny girl sues school to be named sole valedictorian

[Sava]

Arrian... My opinions aren't necessarily weird/crazy/bad... it's my methods of expressing them.

[Arrian]

I know that, Sava. I just couldn't resist.

-Arrian

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Sava
actually, the people who had to take P.E. are the ones being discriminated against. Reverse discrimination is just as bad.

By that logic, if a school had a rule that only a white person could be valedictorian then any attempt to change the rule to allow a black person to win would be reverse discrimination against whites.

And by that logic, the rules for picking the valedictorian discriminates agaisnt people who aren't smart.

[Sava]

And surprisingly enough, I'm not this obnoxious in real life. Something about these forums just brings out the best in me.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Japher
I say cane her because she is whiner, and than beat the living snot out of her parents for not teaching her how to be humble.

If anyone deserves to be caned it's the principal and the school board.

The principal's an idiot for changing the rules in a disciminatory manner just before graduation.

The school board members are idiots for allowing this to go to court. They should have simply overruled the principal. Instead, they waste taxpayers money by fighting a battle for no reason other than their pride.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Tingkai


By that logic, if a school had a rule that only a white person could be valedictorian then any attempt to change the rule to allow a black person to win would be reverse discrimination against whites.

And by that logic, the rules for picking the valedictorian discriminates agaisnt people who aren't smart.

Tingkai, do you know what discrimination is? Do you know what preferential treatment is? This is a case of preferential treatment. The school officials only saught to give everyone an equal opprotunity. And that's my point. P.E. should be taken out of the GPA calculations, and the best person should win. This girl should not get a bonus for being disabled.

And yes... the rules for picking valedvictorian do discriminate against the people who don't meet the qualifications for the award. That's the point of the award. Or perhaps you think the valedvictorian should go to someone with a 2.0 GPA.

[Arrian]

Tinkai, what the **** are you talking about?

The girl is not a victim of discrimination. Further, EVEN IF she's got a point (which counsel for the defense does not concede), suing the school is a major overreaction. Additionally, EVEN IF one were to argue that suing isn't an overreaction (which counsel for the defense does not concede) demanding $2.5 million is just ludicrous.

@ Sava. You really do remind me of my long-time roomate in college. Except he was (and sometimes still is) like your online persona in real life.

-Arrian

[Sava]

The principal's an idiot for changing the rules in a disciminatory manner just before graduation.

You are wrong. The rule changes EVENed the playing field.

[Sava]

Except he was (and sometimes still is) like your online persona in real life.

yikes! that would be scary...

I love going back into the archives and reading my old posts. They actually do concern me.

[Japher]

If anyone deserves to be caned it's the principal and the school board.

but we can still beat up the student and parents too, right!?

[Arrian]

yikes! that would be scary...

It was. Think about having no filter whatsoever between having a thought and saying it out loud. Add a dirty mind and a foul mouth. Add some insecurity complexes.

I'm occasionally surprised that I didn't kill him. Yet he's one of my good friends. People are wierd, myself included.

-Arrian

[David Floyd]

Imagine you're disabled, you work hard and get the top marks in school, then the principle says you don't deserve the full prize because you're disabled. That's discrimination plain and simple.

Wrong. It's discrimination against the non-disabled to allow a disabled girl to take a class other than PE, then count that class towards being valedictorian. The best solution is to just disqualify anyone who cannot or will not take the same classes as everyone else - it's just not fair to non-disabled students, and the girl's disability is not their problem.

[Q Classic]

being valedictorian doesn't mean that much, depending on what school you go to.

really intellectually high-powered schools like the one victor and i graduated from, being a valedictorian doesn't mean much, because all of the magnets in our class had such high gpas that virtually every college was salivating over us--when only a few of us applied. i.e., many applied to mit, harvard, and such--but because of the high application rate, they couldn't take all of us...
same thing happens in the posh boarding schools of the northeast, like andover or exeter, where they put out so many qualified applicants that they bleed over into other schools, so valedictorian really means nothing.

mom would have loved for me to be valedictorian--asian driven parent or something like that. i, on the other hand, didn't give a flip--and i don't even have a healthy self-esteem. it's about priorities, and some people just have them a bit messed up.

[Q Classic]

besides, if she's really that immune-system disabled so as to not be able to take pe, she's probably too immune-system disabled to go to a college.
even if you clean your room twice a day, it's still crawling with pathogens...

[Provost Harrison]

She wants to become a lawyer? There's a surprise Another dungbeetle in the ****heap they call the legal profession. F**king parasite...