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

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139. I will use this as an example of what might not

Be on a schedule.

My child recently completed Girls State. She is now eligible to obtain three hours of college credit if she writes a smallish essay/research paper. (I don't have full details but will receive them in September. ) If she completes this for college credit and receives a "B" from her course she can also petition the school to count it as a full credit in independent studies, which is a weighted course. We just discovered that this is also the case with two additional leadership seminars she attended last summer and two college courses she completed online. She may now petition to have them all added as independent studies classes, all with weighted grades. It won't show up on a class schedule but will show up on her final transcript and the boost will push her into graduating summa.

(For the record: her leadership seminars were not camps that parents enrolled and paid for. All three were nominations through the school with a stringent application process, interviews and one included a speech. They were open to all that met scholastic, volunteer and leadership criteria. The college courses online were open to all students at a greatly reduced rate with recommendation from the guidance counselor. )

Do I think the OP is a case of racism? Probably. What I'm also saying is that just making a claim of gpa by class schedule doesn't always show a true account of the final transcript. I'm learning this firsthand.