Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboko View Post
Last time I check Valadictorians are decided by grades... what happened?
My valedictorian was elected from the top 5 students of the class. Some voted for who they thought would do best, others for friends, others to see if the person would fudge up, then some who voted based on academic standings. Incidentally the person who won was the top of the class, in other words me. Our graduating class president was the second highest ranking student as well as salutatorian.

We did not have to give speeches as to why we should be valedictorian though.