Whiney high school bitch to sue school

[Guest SweetNSexyDiva]

I thought the lawsuit was frivilous, just like the girl who sued because she didn't make head cheerleader. Personally, I went to a really competitive high school and we had several valedictorians because of it. And it is an honor and looks nice on paper, but in the future, people don't really care. I don't think it is worth suing over. And I know she has this immune deficiency problem, but the fact is if she had a curriculum just like everyone else it would be more feasable for her to be upset at sharing the "Valedictorian" title.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

We had Phys Ed for the first two years of high school, but it didn't count toward the GPA because it wasn't an "academic subject." That seems to be an easy compromise for a lot of schools and school districts to adopt.

Then why bother in the first place? ESPECIALLY if they're coming right up front and saying that it doesn't count.

[Guest Choken One]

Yep...Might as well call it RECESS.

[Guest Ace309]

In my high school, Phys Ed was graded on an S/U basis. I think theoretically you could get an E for Exceptional that counted as passing as well, and an Incomplete. It didn't count in the average, but if you performed at the U level or got an I that didn't get made up, you'd have to make up the entire quarter with extra (before-school) gym classes. If you didn't make them up, you couldn't graduate.

 

So everyone participated.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

In my school we had to get one credit in PE that would count against your GPA. It was a combination of Health & Gym. You would be marked on how well you did.

 

We also voted on Valedictorian, and it did not end up being the person who won the Governor General's Award (highest GPA). It was a landslide and the guy who got it won a majority on the first vote. We could vote for any graduating student, as long as they passed.

[Guest phoenixrising]

At my HS we only had to take a year of P.E. our freshman year. One semester of that was health and the rest was eh. We had a flag football tourney, then that was it. We'd line up to get counted for attendance, then just played basketball or whatever.

 

Valedictorian - OK, it sucks that she has the best grade and she has to share the honor. But jeez, filing a lawsuit just so she doesn't have to share the spotlight with two other people? Please. It's just a little award. It's not worth filing a lawsuit over.

[Guest SweetNSexyDiva]

Student's lawsuit shows lack of class

 

By Tanya Barrientos

Inquirer Columnist

 

There's a saying that everything we need to know we learned in kindergarten.

 

Blair Hornstine of Moorestown must not have been paying attention the day her class learned about playing well with others.

 

Not that it kept her from doing well in school.

 

On paper, the 18-year-old Moorestown High School senior looks like every parent's dream.

 

Her grades are top-notch. Her SAT scores fall a few points short of perfection.

 

She's won numerous national, city, county and school district accolades for her academic achievements.

 

With her older brother, Adam, she founded a volunteer organization that helps the underprivileged. And she and Adam got a 2001 Presidential Service Award from the White House applauding their success.

 

That same year, she was picked to carry the Olympic torch along Broad Street.

 

On paper, Blair seems like the perfect antidote for the average underachieving, monosyllabic, television-loving, won't-even-make-the-bed teen.

 

She has a medical condition that leaves her too fatigued to attend all her classes at school. And yet, she still got accepted to Harvard University.

 

Yep - on paper, she's a darling.

 

But, in the flesh, Little Miss Perfect is a petty crybaby.

 

She and her legal-minded parents (her father is Camden County Judge Louis Hornstine) are spitting mad because Blair might have to share the valedictorian spotlight with some other student at graduation.

 

The superintendent wants to name co-valedictorians, because he believes the school's weighted grading system (and a reduced class schedule) gave Blair an unfair advantage.

 

Two other students with near-perfect grades were required to take on-campus classes such as physical education (which is weighted less in the grade-point-average calculations). And that made it impossible for them to achieve a GPA as high as Blair's, the superintendent claims.

 

The Hornstines have made it into a federal case. Literally.

 

They've filed a discrimination lawsuit asking for $2.7 million in damages. (Which these days is probably just enough to cover books and board and tuition at Harvard.)

 

Can someone please explain what life lesson Blair's parents want her to learn from this?

 

That the girl who already has everything should throw a temper tantrum when things don't go her way?

 

That overcoming a disability and making it to the top is only worth celebrating if you're up there alone?

 

That even though life isn't fair, hiring a slick lawyer is?

 

I'd feel differently if being the school's sole valedictorian would affect her in some way. But she's already been accepted at Harvard. She's already won scholarship money. She's well on her way to forgetting all about high school.

 

Don't get me wrong. I don't want to take away from the girl's secondary-school accomplishments.

 

She and her parents are doing a perfectly good job of that on their own.

 

Whatever happens now, Blair Hornstine of the graduating class of 2003 will not be remembered as the school valedictorian.

 

Nor as the exceptionally smart, hard-working and talented girl that she undoubtedly is.

 

She will be forever recalled as the sulky, churlish child who took her pomp and circumstance to court and ruined graduation day for everyone.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Can someone please explain what life lesson Blair's parents want her to learn from this?

If you don't get your way, cry like a baby till you do.

 

The more I read about this bitch the more I just wanna take a hammer to her head. And I'm not a violent person by nature.

[Guest SweetNSexyDiva]

I think she pretty much fucked herself by bringing on this lawsuit. She will always be known for the petty little crybaby.

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Only two of my gym classes really had anything to grade by. Like for 8th grade: Boys must be able to do 7 pull ups minimum, but to get a good grade 14. 45 situps in 60 seconds, 50 push-ups in 60 seconds...hmm....can't remember many more. I bombed that, I remember. Oh, side note: Girls needed a minimum of one pull up, for good grade: two. Guys had to run a mile, and girls had to run a lap. The other one was freshman year, but he tossed those out the window, really.

[Guest Galactic Gigolo]

My high school is so sensitive (since anything happening will cause a school shooting, after all) that stuff like push-ups, pull-ups, etc. are graded on 'effort.' In addition, we're now doing the wall climbing and shit, and you don't have to climb the wall if you don't want to.

 

I live a half hour from this woman, so I'm really contemplating going to this girl's graduation and filming something.