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Should I just kill myself lol
My school announced me as valedictorian and then took it away because the board of education revealed a paper that said valedictorian needs to be chosen based on 2nd marking periods result (the 7th semester of high school). This paper was meant to be applied from 1999 but the whole school was unaware of it for the last 28 or more years. The school has been choosing valedictorian based on 3rd marking period result. According to that I was 1st, so the school announced me as valedictorian. But the parents of the student who was first in second marking period brought the paper to the school's attention. The student's dad is also in the board of education and they are pressuring the school to follow that paper's rule. For the last 28 years and maybe more, the school was unaware of this rule but when it's my turn, suddenly the rules came to light. Everything was done, my speech, my essay for valedictorian breakfast bla bla bla. Even for the second marking period, some of my courses were not added and no explanation was given for that. The principal apologised (literally begged) and said the higher ups are just being too pushy. And none of the teachers or studentd were given the explanation as to why the valedictorian changed in like a few weeks after declaration. And everyone keeps asking me what I did and everything is so fucking ass right now... But i guess at least I will be graduating as first of my graduation class and that's the final transcript that will go to my colleges...
I think you should be open about the reason they stripped you of the title, but bring it up as a funny "oh well, this will be a funny anecdote for a LinkedIn post". It's important that people do not realize how much this hurt you.You can even include it as a story in your personal essay, framing it as how you managed to overcome and motivate yours...... 2 reply