Grapevine student with top grades won't be valedictorian

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Grapevine student with top grades won't be valedictorian

12:37 PM CDT on Thursday, May 29, 2008
By LAURIE FOX / The Dallas Morning News


Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year.

In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school's history.

It's still not enough to make her the valedictorian, which brings a one-year college scholarship from the state.

Her closest competitor's GPA is 5.64. No one disputes that she's the top student in her class numerically. The problem rests with another number entirely.

Anjali rocketed through high school in only three years.

But a school district policy states: "The valedictorian shall be the eligible student with the highest weighted grade-point average for four years of high school."

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Almost a 6.0 GPA, a perfect ACT score, and completed a high school curriculum in 3 years, yet punished for success.