Alert Reel: Mom Challenges Elimination of Valedictorian Honors
Evidence of Harm in Colorado Schools
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A passionate mother criticizes the growing trend of eliminating valedictorian and salutatorian honors from schools. She explains how academic awards served as a vital motivator for her and many students like her—those who attend school striving to be the best. She warns that replacing achievement-based honors with participation trophies undermines student ambition and removes healthy incentives. Her testimony challenges the equity-based rationale for removing honors, arguing that excellence should be celebrated, not erased.
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