Valedictorians In Schools

The concern about valedictorians in schools is the way how it stresses students out, as well as embeds competitive competition into students. One side doesn’t care about the rewards of being at the top, where as another side may feel like the system is unfair or should be non-existant. Many schools have tried to lower the complaints and issues about valedictorians by allowing more than one valedictorian or by getting rid of the system in total. However, in most cases the system of valedictorian is unnecessary and causes problems.

Not to mention there’s other, more efficient ways of rewarding a student. Some schools reward kids for their achievements in sports, as well as clubs and good deeds. While it is nice to be awarded for hard work, it shouldn’t have to involve putting a crown over a student’s head and making others feel like they didn’t work as hard. Moreover, …show more content…
Instead, it rewards them based on their GPA. Therefore, it’s a failed measure of excellence. In some schools, there can only be one valedictorian. In this case, some students may be taking college and AP classes and will end out with a GPA around a 3.5, but won’t receive the place for valedictorian because another student took regular, easier classes and got all straight A’s. This creates confusion in students, and in most cases, anger. Also the determination to rise to the top for some students, leads them down a path to where they take classes that they aren’t interested in. Some students enroll in a lot of AP and college classes that they might not even be interested in, but they join the class anways to get the extra credits. This prevents some students from taking the classes that they would like to take only because they don’t offer any extra credits. If this system wasn’t in place at the beginning, then students wouldn’t have to worry about climbing to the top of their classes just to receive a