Culinary Management. Excel Basics. Personal Finance. Project Welding. Spreadsheet Applications. Policy Information. Accordingly, appropriate graduation programs may be planned by designated school officials for commencement on the date selected by the Board of Trustees. Elementary and Middle Schools may hold promotional exercises, but formal graduation programs for these grades are prohibited.
Students will be provided an opportunity to work with faculty and administration officials to plan graduation and promotional ceremonies. However, final plans such as outside speakers, student dress, where, when, and in what manner the promotional or graduation ceremonies will be held will be subject to approval by the school administration and the Board of Trustees.
The attire for elementary and Middle School promotional activities will be clean and pressed school clothing, not formal attire. The attire, under a graduation cap and gown, for High School graduation activities will be determined by the building principal and senior sponsors to monitor established attire and behavior standards and exclude from graduation activities those students not exhibiting the established standards.
The cap and gown for High School graduation will be recommended by the students with final approval resting with the building principal.
The student must also be physically enrolled on campus their entire senior year at EHS. However, when GPAs are only separated by tiny fractions of points, it may make sense to recognize more than one student with this honor.
There are also policy variations in which classes count towards the GPA that determines class ranking. Some schools might only include grades from courses in core subject areas while others may include both core classes and electives. You may have heard about students who were valedictorians of past classes but earned a lower GPA than the student ranked fifth in your class.
Some classes are more or less competitive than others! If you wanna be the top goat which I think is what valedictorians should really be called , you may have to lock horns with other super driven students in your class. Relax nerds, there's no actual physical activity involved.
Valedictorian isn't the only title that students can earn for academic achievements in high school. At most schools, the salutatorian is the student ranked second in the class after the valedictorian. Usually, the salutatorian will also give a speech at graduation. Salutatorians are slightly cooler than valedictorians. Okay, I'm biased because I was salutatorian in high school, but let's face it, it's kind of true. Some high schools will also offer Latin honors to students who achieve certain GPAs.
You may have heard of this practice in the context of college academics. Students are given the titles of cum laude , magna cum laude , and summa cum laude as markers of their academic achievements. Different high schools will have different GPA thresholds for each honor. These honors are also sometimes given out based on class rank percentile. The only Latin phrase that most of us know. Seize the carp. That's what it means, right? The title of valedictorian, as we have seen, can mean different things depending on your high school.
If you're a valedictorian, you will have a very high GPA and probably high test scores as well , and those qualifications will be the things that actually get you into selective colleges. When you first apply to college, you won't know yet whether you're valedictorian or not, and neither will the schools. You won't find out for sure until the spring when you've already received admissions decisions from colleges.
Because the GPAs of valedictorians can vary from year to year, the title means far less than the grades that got you there. This is especially true in the context of the new trend of naming multiple valedictorians; the term is more watered down than it used to be. Even though it might not matter that much in college admissions, there are other benefits to being named valedictorian. You may be eligible for special scholarships at the colleges where you've been accepted because of your status as a valedictorian.
This is common at public universities that hope to lure in high-achieving students with tuition deals. You'll also be recognized for all of your hard work and get to deliver a speech to your entire class. If the thought of giving a speech makes you want to puke, then this might not be a plus, but it really is a good chance for you to be honest and share your reflections on the last four years.
Deliver your valedictorian speech while decked out in full clown makeup. The revised Administrative Regulation regarding the selection process for valedictorians and salutatorians takes effect with the Graduating Class of Valedictorian is the academic title conferred upon the highest ranked student among those graduating from an educational institution, typically based upon the highest grade point average.
Salutatorian is the academic title conferred upon the second highest ranking student in the class. All high schools, including alternative schools, will use this selection process and confer upon qualifying students the title of valedictorian or salutatorian. The title leading academic achiever will no longer be used. The Governing Board believes that a valedictorian, representing a school and the district, shall not only display the highest level of academic achievement, but shall also exhibit the highest levels of character and behavior.
To this end, the following criteria shall determine the valedictorian status:. Credits earned in the core courses of English, mathematics, science, social science and foreign language will constitute the academic criteria used for selection purposes and will include all courses in these areas including grade 9 through the first semester of grade In order to qualify, the student must be enrolled in classes during the first semester of their 12th grade year.
The merit system will be measured on a point scale.
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