Mississippi School Under Fire For Seemingly Reneging On Top Honors Given To Black Graduates And Giving To White Students, Instead
The West Point Consolidated School District issued a statement on Thursday, saying there are two methods to determine a student’s class rank. The first method is known as quality point average, according to the district. The second is grade point average.
“A student’s rank in his/her graduating class will be calculated by averaging his/her semester averages,” the district stated. “Based on the above statement in the handbook, a student’s ranking should be determined by GPA. However at Senior Award’s Day on Monday, May 24, 2021, the two students who were recognized as Valedictorian and Salutatorian did not have the highest GPA. Instead, these two students have the highest QPA.”
As a result, administrators recognized Washington and Temple as the students with the highest QPA while Borgioli and Berry proved to have the highest GPA.
“The WPCSD feels it necessary to recognize all four seniors at graduation,” the district stated. “We apologize for any confusion and problems this has caused. The school district takes full responsibility for this misunderstanding.”
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