Does FCPS award honors forcGPA at graduation

[Anonymous]

Cum laude etc?

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

It is a shame thay schools no longer honor the valedictorian.

I hope the "faculty students of the year" are selected from the top ten or so kids in each class and not open to every student.

I say this as a non valedictorian whose kids will never have valedictorian grades.

[Anonymous]

We now live in an everybody gets a trophy society. If there was a valedictorian, someone would sue

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

It is a shame thay schools no longer honor the valedictorian.

I hope the "faculty students of the year" are selected from the top ten or so kids in each class and not open to every student.

I say this as a non valedictorian whose kids will never have valedictorian grades.

I think they start the pool with the top x, don’t know the cutoff. Then the teachers vote from the list of finalists. I do know one of the students that won in the last three years had all As every quarter and an unweighted 4.0 and took a bunch of APs and honor courses. Also, the class President won in both of the years my children graduated. It is more than just grades. It is grades AND....

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

It is a shame thay schools no longer honor the valedictorian.

I hope the "faculty students of the year" are selected from the top ten or so kids in each class and not open to every student.

I say this as a non valedictorian whose kids will never have valedictorian grades.

I think they start the pool with the top x, don’t know the cutoff. Then the teachers vote from the list of finalists. I do know one of the students that won in the last three years had all As every quarter and an unweighted 4.0 and took a bunch of APs and honor courses. Also, the class President won in both of the years my children graduated. It is more than just grades. It is grades AND....

It really should be grades only, not things like class president where they already get other accolades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

It is a shame thay schools no longer honor the valedictorian.

I hope the "faculty students of the year" are selected from the top ten or so kids in each class and not open to every student.

I say this as a non valedictorian whose kids will never have valedictorian grades.

I think they start the pool with the top x, don’t know the cutoff. Then the teachers vote from the list of finalists. I do know one of the students that won in the last three years had all As every quarter and an unweighted 4.0 and took a bunch of APs and honor courses. Also, the class President won in both of the years my children graduated. It is more than just grades. It is grades AND....

It really should be grades only, not things like class president where they already get other accolades.

My recollection is they recognized lots of kids at graduation. Don't know that they need to encourage kids to take even more AP courses by designating a single valedictorian.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

It is a shame thay schools no longer honor the valedictorian.

I hope the "faculty students of the year" are selected from the top ten or so kids in each class and not open to every student.

I say this as a non valedictorian whose kids will never have valedictorian grades.

I think they start the pool with the top x, don’t know the cutoff. Then the teachers vote from the list of finalists. I do know one of the students that won in the last three years had all As every quarter and an unweighted 4.0 and took a bunch of APs and honor courses. Also, the class President won in both of the years my children graduated. It is more than just grades. It is grades AND....

It really should be grades only, not things like class president where they already get other accolades.

I disagree. There are always a bunch at the top that are so close together that very little distinguishes them. I think it means more that someone could do the grades AND other things rather than only grades.

[Anonymous]

It’s almost worse when they recognize a large group as opposed to one or two. It’s easy to realize you’re not at the top, but harder to swallow when you’re one of the few singles out as having a lower GPA.

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Anonymous wrote:We now live in an everybody gets a trophy society. If there was a valedictorian, someone would sue

actually, people would game the system to be Valedictorian. Things like taking every thing they can that does not include a GPA bump pass fail.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

Why does one have to be a boy and the other a girl? Sounds archaic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

Why does one have to be a boy and the other a girl? Sounds archaic.

The faculty awards went to two boys this year - one heading to Yale and the second to Williams.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost worse when they recognize a large group as opposed to one or two. It’s easy to realize you’re not at the top, but harder to swallow when you’re one of the few singles out as having a lower GPA.

Agree. There were 60+ "valedictorians" with medals in my DC's Langley class. It's absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean HS: If a student earns a 4.0 or better, they get a medal at Convocation to wear at graduation. Too many to honor at graduation in the time slot allotted at DAR. Two student awards are given at graduation, Faculty Student of the Year, male and female. It is the replacement of valedictorian.

It is a shame thay schools no longer honor the valedictorian.

I hope the "faculty students of the year" are selected from the top ten or so kids in each class and not open to every student.

I say this as a non valedictorian whose kids will never have valedictorian grades.

Why is it a shame? Explain.