Black Mississippi student forced to share valedictorian title with white student who had lower GPA

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2. I went into the FB page the mother set up and I'm not so sure.

I couldn't see evidence for her claims -- but I could see that she appears to be fighting the school district on many different fronts.
It's too bad that she's making her daughter believe that being a co-Valedictorian isn't as great an honor as being a Valedictorian.

In what looks to me like possibly obsessive behavior (she supposedly has been watching every single grade the other girl has gotten since middle school), the mom is taking all the fun and excitement away from what should have been a thrilling event.


"An attorney for the Cleveland School District called the lawsuit 'frivolous' and said the students 'had identical grade point averages.'

“'As such, under school board policy, they were both named valedictorian of their graduating class,' Jamie Jacks wrote in an email. 'The district’s policy is racially neutral and fair to students.”

Sherry Shepherd, Jasmine Shepherd’s mother, said it was easy to calculate the students’ grade-point averages because the community is so small.

“'These children have been attending school with each other since middle school,' she said. 'We know the schedule, we know what they take, and we have a good idea where the discrepancy lies.'”