The King of Controversy

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Location:

Provo,UT,United States

Member Since:

Jun 20, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Track:

400 - 54.87 (Region 9 Championships 2015)

800 - 2:05 (Region 9 Championships 2015)

1600 - 4:39  (Desert Hills Invite 2015)

Cross Country:

 2 Mile - 10:20 (Little Valley 2 Miler 2014)

3 Mile - 16:00 (Woodbridge Classic 2014)

5k - 16:45 (Nike Southwest 2014)

Road Races:

Half Marathon - 1:20:56 (Dogtown Half 2015)

PVXC Team Captain 2014

PV Track Captain 2015

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals TBD

Long-Term Running Goals:

Attain the Best Running Form and Legs

Goals TBD

Personal:

Ran for Pine View High School from 2012 to 2015. Now I attend BYU but don’t run for them. I am the King of Controversy.

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Nike Lunarglide 7 Lifetime Miles: 244.25
Wed, May 13, 2015
Total Distance
5.50

PM - 5,5 miles. 40 min easy with 300, 200, 100 finishes. Fun last run of my life (my Coach predicted I will probably die before I ever run again). 

Controversy - Valedictorians. I love my school so much but we have the most ridiculous system of choosing Valdedictorian or should I say Valdedictorians. They just let anyone who has a 4.0 non-weighted GPA be a Valdedictorian which is stupid because this year we have 14 Valedictorians! 14! It's the stupidest thing ever. Being a valedictorian is supposed to be a great honor but we've watered it down so that regardless of how hard or easy your classes are, you can get it. We need to revise it because this is just ridiculous. Does any of your schools do this too? And do you have a suggestion for fixing this garbage?

Saucony Mirage 3 Miles: 5.00Nike Zoom Matumbo 2 Miles: 0.50
Comments
From Hell Raiser on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 14:28:07 from 204.113.54.0

Yeah

From Jake K on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 15:06:05 from 159.212.71.200

This issue was addressed on a recent episode of Modern Family. The co-valedictorians were supposed to race a mile to break the tie. They ended up falling in love or some crap like that, but I like the idea of an objective, physical tie-breaker.

From allie on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 18:22:07 from 24.99.46.55

my HS math teacher explained their system to me once, and it was a lot more complicated than just looking at GPA. i honestly don't remember what all they looked at, but it was a complicated forumla factoring in ACT/SAT scores, academic rigor of courses, and possibly even extra-curricular involvement (?). i went to a ridiculous high school where i think maybe 25% of the graduating class had a 4.0 GPA, so they had to come up with a system to select just one valedictorian and one salutatorian.

at my old job, we would take the top student(s) from each program (based on GPA), and then the faculty would vote on one from each department. from there, they would have to write a speech/essay, and then the final one was selected from that group. we had to pick one and only one. i agree with you -- having 14 is dumb.

From allie on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 18:24:08 from 24.99.46.55

oh, i should add. i know BYU has (or at one time had) co-valedictorians. their solution: one said the opening prayer and one said the closing prayer at graduation.

^true.

From The Warbeast on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 20:23:13 from 64.255.92.95

It's extremely absurd. GPA should definitely not be the only factor to choose the top student of the class. Or at least they should have weighted GPAs

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