I know life is not fair, and neither is the Grapevine Colleyville School District. How to you spell “cheated?” Cheated is the best way to describe what has happened to 16 year old Anjali Datta, a student in the Grapevine Colleyville School District who has the highest GPA in her class and the highest ever for the District. Despite that fact, she is not being awarded the title she has earned, the title of Valedictorian. Misguided fits the school district’s policy concerning its Valedictorian rules stopping her from that title.
The school districts lame and misguided explanation is Anjali finished her 38 hours of instruction required by state law in just three years, and the rule for Valedictorian is the highest grade average over 4 years. Please! She completed 4 years of high school instruction in just 3 years! With the highest grade point average in Grapevine Colleyville School District History!
What a rip! Here is a dedicated girl, with dedicated and supportive parents, told by the school district’s own counselors accelerating her graduation date would not keep her from being Valedictorian. The school districts rule is unfair and misguided, it penalizes achievement and those who push to go beyond the norm and succeed.
Anjali Datta is being cheated! The student named Valedictorian in the Grapevine Colleyville district knows full well she did not beat Datta’s scores, only that she spent a year longer in the District’s schools. How hollow and how shallow the school district has made this prestigious honor.
Datta deserves to be Valedictorian, did 4 years of work in 3 and got the best grades ever, and the school district knows it. How sad.
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