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―Kofi Annan
―Kofi Annan
Is it wrong asking, “Who is Valedictorian?”
By: Reylena Tsosie I was sitting in one of my classes when a teacher at Gallup High wrote a referral for three students after one of the students asked a simple question, “Who is Valedictorian?” One of the students that got written up told me that it also said, “ She can’t handle her voice and opinions.” It all started Wednesday, May 9, 2018. At the end of the hour a student asked a teacher, “Who is valedictorian?” That teacher began telling the class who it was. Another student that did not get written up said, “Do you know why _______ _____is not Valedictorian?” She then got mad and said, “ She didn’t meet the standards.” Another student defended that person and explained that she did meet the requirements. The teacher then gave the class a lecture. That was the end of that discussion. The next day in that class the teacher was absent and there was a sub. Three students had to go to a different class and write a five paragraph apology letter to the teacher. The students also found out that they got a referral. One of the students that got written up wasn’t part of that discussion. I asked one teacher if a student can get written up after asking that question. That teacher told me, “It was a question and that referral shouldn’t even had happened.” When that teacher came back to class one week later. She told the class, “I hope what happened last week doesn’t happen again and I hope those students learned their lesson.”
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