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Originally posted by BishopMVP
Even if the other kid would have had a higher GPA had the grade for the gym class (that she did not have to take) been taken out?
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That is still not really a completely valid comparison, because presumably, that kid would have had to take something in place of the gym class, and there is no way of knowing how the kid would have done in this hypothetical other class.
I think there are plausible and defensible arguments for both sides, but like I said in the other thread, both sides have acted silly in this matter. It's not something that should have ended up in court, and the only way it could have ended up there is for both sides to have been unreasonable.
If the school's rules are that the student with the highest GPA is the valedictorian, the school should have stuck with that, and not tried to rewrite the rules just before graduation to cover a situation they didn't anticipate.