{"id":462,"date":"2012-05-13T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2012-05-13T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:11:41","slug":"the-valedictorian-title-no-more-at-certain-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college\/the-valedictorian-title-no-more-at-certain-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valedictorian Title&#8230; No More At Certain Schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3275\/2541302013_1672e14c96.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2012\/04\/26\/20120426valedictorian-title-erased.html\">article<\/a> on AZCentral.com, the article mentions certain school districts taking away the Valedictorian title and no longer honoring it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons being:<br \/>\n&#8220;Many students now take classes online, or transfer from other districts or states, he said, making it increasingly difficult to decide how to weight grades to determine a fair class rank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the article does make many good points about the valedictorian status, and instead honoring the top 1 %, 2% or 10% of class, it seems to be a touchy subject for many parents (who commented on the article).<\/p>\n<p>One of the top voted comments reads:<br \/>\n&#8220;Not honoring the top student is a nutty idea that was probably thought of by the parents of students near the top of the class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on the situation? Do you feel the top student should be honored or just the top percentage of graduating students?<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re graduating in June, it&#8217;s not too late to order your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\">graduation stoles<\/a>. Order soon and save on shipping costs.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thirty30photography\/2541302013\/\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article on AZCentral.com, the article mentions certain school districts taking away the Valedictorian title and no longer honoring it. One of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[109,280,297,323,585],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-college","tag-graduation","tag-graduation-stoles","tag-high-school","tag-valedictorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}