Punishing the smart kids?

Here's the rest of the story. Many schools adopted the same rule to keep transfer students from swooping in their senior year to claim the time-honored title of valedictorian from a student who had attended the school all four years. Now that more students are graduating in less than four years, however, maybe school officials should consider revising that rule. Anyone agree?   

--Martha Deller

Comments

[Tom Keener]

As I retire from education todayI cannot help but be thankful that I will not be associated with some of the numbskull antics of some of those "administering " our childrens schooling.When we spend millions Trying to lower dropout rates, we then deny the obvious academic achieverher rightful place as valdictorian. Common sense has truly become an uncommon commodity in Texas education. God help our children, the state education system and the local administrations certainly won't be.