determinations are based on policy issues that don t really reflect the strongest academic students in the class and i think sometimes there is merit in having more than one student. sure. at the very top. what about that argument that she makes where if you ve got a whole bunch of kids right there at the top, let s say you ve got five or 10 of them and they all have a grade point average of 3.9999 and they re separated by just a little bit. why not make them all valedictorian? yeah, i think the point of having a valedictorian is distinguish among the best of the best. this is not about equity or saving kids feelings but about distinguishing who is the valedictorian. who is that top ranked kid? if they re that close together, it s the onus of us and the schools to come up with a better way to differentiate the cream of the crop between the creamiest of the crop. ok, cynthia? well, and i do agree with that. i think that the problem that we