On 7/25/11 7:53 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 25/07/2011 5:16 PM, Harryk wrote:
Black Student Can't Be Valedictorian
By EMMALEE ABEL


PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AR) - A high school southeast of Little Rock would not
let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest
grade-point average, and wouldn't let her mom speak to the school board
about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal
Court.
Kymberly Wimberly, 18, got only a single B in her 4 years at McGehee
Secondary School, and loaded up on Honors and Advanced Placement
classes. She had the highest G.P.A. and says the school's refusal to let
her be sole valedictorian was part of a pattern of discrimination
against black students.
Wimberly says that despite earning the highest G.P.A. of the Class of
2011, and being informed of it by a school counselor, "school
administrators and personnel treated two other white students as heir[s]
apparent to the valedictorian and salutatorian spots."
Wimberly's mother is the school's "certified media specialist." She says
in the federal discrimination complaint that after her daughter had been
told she would be valedictorian, the mother heard "in the copy room that
same day, other school personnel expressed concern that Wimberly's
status as valedictorian might cause a 'big mess.'"
McGehee Secondary School is predominantly white, and 46 percent
African-American, according to the complaint. Bratton says that the day
after she heard the "big mess" comment, McGehee Principal Darrell
Thompson, a defendant, told her "that he decided to name a white student
as co-valedictorian," although the white student had a lower G.P.A.
Bratton says she tried to protest the decision to the school board, but
defendant Superintendent Thomas Gathen would not let her speak, because
she allegedly had "filled out the wrong form. Instead of 'public
comments,' Gather [sic] said Bratton should have asked for 'public
participation.'" The superintendent told her she could not appeal his
decision until the June 28 school board meeting; graduation was May 13.
(The superintendent's name is spelled Gathen in the heading of the
complaint, but is spelled Gather throughout the body of it.)
The last African-American valedictorian in McGehee School District was
in 1989. Wimberly says the school discourages black students from taking
honors and advanced placement classes, "by telling them, among other
things, that the work was too hard."
"Because of defendants' continuous disparate treatment of
African-American students, defendants' actions toward the plaintiff can
properly be classed as intentional," the complaint states.
"Defendants did not support African-American students, and did not want
to see Wimberly, an African-American young mother as valedictorian.
"But for Wimberly's race, defendants would not have selected a student
with a lower G.P.A. than Wimberly to also be a valedictorian."
She seeks punitive damages for constitutional violations, and an
injunction declaring her sole valedictorian of the school's Class of
2011. She is represented by John Walker of Little Rock.

You left out one huge point. She was unwed and pregnant in the junior
year. Adn 5+12 = 17, so why 18? Maybe she took a year off?

Valedictorian is most often the highest marks but also in consideration
is the "best representative".

Sorry, just some ant-white blacks mouthing off with more bull****. "Her
is you valedictorian, a single mother knocked up from unprotected sex as
your role model...."..... ya right.

Other reasons a top mark person might not become valedictorian include
poor moral character, general dislike, poor roll model, criminal, drugs
and cheating. Get the picture white person hater?


You really are a foul, racist turd.