9 valedictorians at Bellaire Highschool

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https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/04/12/bellaire-high-school-has-record-breaking-9-valedictorians/

9 students have 5.0 GPA. Am I racist for knowing the race of the majority of students before clicking on the article? Not a lot of diversity.
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To be fair, Bellaire has a disproportionately large East Asian population. It's something like 25%.
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DrZ
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Memorial high school had 32 valedictorians last year if you need more diversity.
Keegan99
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Cheapens the title.
Roll the Bones
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Shouldn't there be some sort of Thunderdome type battle to pick a winner?

'Nine geeks enter....'
TAG7676
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A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.
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TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.


Hell, they already own the president*
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TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.


Where have you been? I graduated in 97 and 9 of our top 10 were Asian.
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TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.


Being book smart isn't even half the battle. If you have zero social skills because all you did your entire life was study, nobody is going to promote you on intelligence alone.
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Why not have a 6.0 or a 35.0 GPA?
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EX TEXASEX
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Honest to God, have not looked yet. Bet I will guess Asian /Indian/ token whitey

ok checked and I got 2/3 right. In todays education system I am sure a 67% is probably considered high achieving. So I have that going for me , which is sweet.
#FJB
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Cromagnum said:

TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.


Being book smart isn't even half the battle. If you have zero social skills because all you did your entire life was study, nobody is going to promote you on intelligence alone.
This is a very short-sighted response that seems to disregard the trend away from capitalism as we have known it. The new system will simply look for cogs whereby social skills are not needed.
2+2=5
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Racist curriculum because 78% aren't black/brown.
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How is there not a tiebreaker like highest bench press/squat/clean total?
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GAC06 said:

Why not have a 6.0 or a 35.0 GPA?

We had a potential of 12 total points, I think. 1-3 for Cs (minus through pluses, though they were numeric); 4-6 for Bs, and 7-9 for A's. You got 3 extra points per grade for honors classes. 7.0 meant you graduated with honors. What was weird, I guess, was that all GPA did was rank you -- as long as you passed (70 or above) a class you were good to go. I'm sure people had 1.x GPAs and graduated. Maybe even lower than that as you needed 20 credits out of 24 possible 4-year classes.

It was NOT dumbed down, just more precise. The only problem was that certain classes like foreign language received honors credit by default (or at least, what I took did) and other classes got no honors credit regardless -- including 2 I took all 4 years. Other students who chased grades took classes that gave honors credit and bypassed extra curricular activities. I wasn't "top 10" material but my selections certainly cost me 20-30 spots in class rank.

I got over it.

(Why I remember all this, I'll never know. Oh, well).

Incidentally, since we had numeric grades anyway, why we didn't just have a grade average rather than a grade POINT average, I can't answer.
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TChaney said:


Went looking for a take out daiquiri place last month and was really surprised to see the Chinese road signs in Houston. The daiquiris weren't that great either.
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Asians are kicking our aases
Still theough fir the most part don't create anything. Great at re engineeeing
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OldArmyBrent said:

How is there not a tiebreaker like highest bench press/squat/clean total?

Because those kids couldn't deadlift a roll of paper towels.
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We had a scale of 0-100, and it produced 1 valedictorian.

Evan Secor was either our valedictorian or salutatorian. He's one if the Aggies that started the Big Event.
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9 lame speeches. Longest graduation ceremony ever...
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill
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So basically no valedictorian.
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Tests aren't hard enough
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OldArmyBrent said:

How is there not a tiebreaker like highest bench press/squat/clean total?


Because they didn't have any weights light enough.
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Just FYI A&M's diversity council just sent out recommendations to colleges to lower or cancel admission standards especially those that involve racist math.
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supradave94 said:

Shouldn't there be some sort of Thunderdome type battle to pick a winner?

'Nine geeks enter....'
My thoughts exactly
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Our highschool was on a 100.0 scale, so we definitely had one valedictorian. If you took AP classes and aced all of them you could have as high as 110.0. (Still remember exactly what mine was...102.132. And no, I was not Valedictorian or even salutatorian.)

Dumb having that many valedictorians. Cheapens it.
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Dan Scott said:

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/04/12/bellaire-high-school-has-record-breaking-9-valedictorians/

9 students have 5.0 GPA. Am I racist for knowing the race of the majority of students before clicking on the article? Not a lot of diversity.
We need a new GPA range (no failing grades)

1.0 --- D
2.0 --- C
3.0 --- B
4.0 --- A
5.0 --- AA
6.0 --- AAA
7.0 --- Alpha

Charpie
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I look forward to what Westwood's top 10 will look like.
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TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.
No... I see 9 hardworking distinguished Americans.
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Kashchei said:

TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.


Hell, they already own the president*


They own the Masters as well
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Cromagnum said:

TAG7676 said:

A Greek female, a white dude, and seven Asians. China is so going to own us within a few generations.


Being book smart isn't even half the battle. If you have zero social skills because all you did your entire life was study, nobody is going to promote you on intelligence alone.


Valedictorian types at competitive high schools like Bellaire tend to also be very involved in extracurriculars, clubs, the community, etc. The stereotype of the book smart kid with good grades and no social skills tends to be wrong more often than not, in my experience.
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Keegan99 said:

Cheapens the title.
I went to Bellaire in the late 90's. It was a good school then, and still is. Those kids that end up Valedictorian pretty much set their HS academic schedules around being able to accomplish it. Honors (IB/PreIB) courses carry the opportunity for an extra grade point. When I was there they would NOT take any extra electives that weren't offered under honors. If PE was required they took the minimum credits because that non-honors course hurt their overall GPA. Same with any other electives.

Those kids set a goal from the start, and worked towards it. They all had to have made 8 consecutive semesters of straight A's. If any of them were not zoned to Bellaire and were on a magnet program that included 8 semesters of foreign language.

Won't say having 9 of them cheapens anything when they all accomplished the exact same level of perfection.


Now, that this does do is sets a stage where these kids can't do anything "fun." No band, no extra art classes, no sports, no yearbook or newspaper... All of those are offered as regular classes in your schedule and are not offered at the honors level. So the kids gunning for valedictorian will not take them as they would lower their overall GPA.
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GAC06 said:

Why not have a 6.0 or a 35.0 GPA?
AP Courses
A=5
B=4
C=3
D=2
F=0

Academic Courses
A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
F=0

All of this is on a four point scale, which I know is weird.
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Yes, and every sprinter in the Olympic 100m finals has trained with that singular focus as well.

They don't all get gold medals.
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