LogFAQs > #883145580

Far-Queue posted...

Jasmine and Heather Bouse was the student named to be co-valedictorian at Cleveland High School in 2016 who the district said had "identical grades"

Oh, seems fair that they share the honor, then... waitaminit...

But Jasmine took more AP classes and the district's own rules meant she should have won the title outright

Oh, yeah. That's bullshit. Probably rooted in racism, sure.

You don't seem to understand how that works. Unless there's specifically a rule that AP classes matter more than the actual GPA -- ie, a C in an AP beats an A in a normal -- which, by the way, would be insane, then that doesn't really work. Otherwise, "identical grades" doesn't mean scoring the same in every subject, but instead having an identical GPA which means that she could have under-performed in APs but, since APs are worth more, the result came out the same.

It's a 100% innocuous situation which is ONLY being contested because race was wrongly cited, causing people to virtue-signal like hell because they're scared to death of potentially being accused of racism even when they *have* to know that their position is completely wrong.

BlackScythe0 posted...

mrduckbear posted...

But Jasmine took more AP classes and the district's own rules meant she should have won the title outright and the school has never had co-valedictorian's before nor has a black student ever been awarded the honour in the 110 year history

I'm pretty sure that an A in a regular class is worth 4.0 and an A in an ap class is worth 5.0 with honors being 4.5

So if she took ap classes and got the same grades as someone who took less then their GPA is not the same.

The article literally mentions that it's based on an identical GPA, not merely face grades. Ergo any differential would already be reflected in the GPA.
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