So there’s this girl who has “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” who was also her schools valedictorian.
Very commendable. :A+:
But, since she is home-schooled most of the day due to her disability, the school wanted a second, full-time student to share the honors with her. C:-)
In her schools guidelines, there is only supposed to be one.
So, she sues, wins and becomes everyones enemy instantly.
Now, the students at Harvard, where she plans on going to study law, want to prevent her from going-they don’t want to be associated with the likes of her.
Many say that she mainly won the case because her father is a judge and he has ‘connections.’
Others say that she’s a faker about her disability because on the seniors “Grad-Nite” at Disney World, she displayed no signs of being “Chronically Fatigued.”
*Originally posted by Coolidge *
**The dad was actually a Judge, not a lawyer. (Not to throw it back at you).:beam:
But that doesnt make it any better. **
I would be willing to bet that the father is also a lawyer, and a judge…
*Originally posted by mlkdesign *
**What do you expect. You’ll always find people like that. Especially in the US - land of the lawyers =)=) **
I wouldnt be so quick to pass it off as because Americans are lawsuit crazy
( Which MLK is true for the most part )
The school had published rules about how it awards its validictorian. They did not adhere to those published guidelines.
Graduation with such an honor (even in High School) will effect your acceptance/placement in college. College will ultimately effect your job later on in life. Your job later on in life is measured in dollars. I can see grounds for a lawsuit here.
Harvard not accepting her because of the situation is discrimination. Grounds again for a lawsuit.
true, I agree Fester. We have made the grades/college such a big thing in our society. I mean you have to sign your kid up for kschool before he/she comes out of the womb…
I think this could have been handled without a lawsuit, and without dragging the poor unpopular (goody-goody) girl through hell. If she does have CFS, which I see no reason to doubt, then she deserves even more consideration, not less, but she definitely didn’t need to have to remember her graduation from High School like this… no one does.
The school had published rules about how it awards its validictorian. They did not adhere to those published guidelines.
Fester 8542-
I like how you noticed and pointed that out. I wanted to hear unbiased reactions, that is why I tried to be very neutral in the original post.
:elderly:
I read about this story a few days ago. There was something else that might give Harvard a more sound reason for revoking her admission:
Still, Hornstine held the moral high ground until June 3, when her local newspaper, the Courier-Post, reported that language in five articles she had written for a teen section should have been attributed to the original writers: former president Bill Clinton and Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and William Brennan. It’s not clear yet whether this will jeopardize her Harvard acceptance; Harvard officials say they won’t comment on a student’s status.
She did try to claim that as an accident, and as long as she didn’t give herself credit for the information, it is as her lawyers say a “non-issue.” Of course, I hope she applied to other colleges in case Harvard does decide to not include her for next year. The URL for the full news article from where I stole:pirate: the quote from is: MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News
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In print, Hornstine acknowledged that she was “incorrect in … thinking that news articles didn’t require as strict citation scrutiny as most school assignments because there was no place for footnotes or endnotes.”
I don’t know why she would think that. It’s not like after high school you don’t need to worry about proper citation…that is…
unless you are Jayson Blair of the New York Times.:thumb:
How do you become the valedictorian of a high school or be Harvard material, and not know that proper citations are needed when quoting something…
that would be reason enough to not let her into Harvard, but as far as being home schooled for a diagnosed illness but registered at the school, then those are the published rules. She must attend some school in order to be a registered student and if she is a registered stufent with highest G.P.A and what ever other qualifications are needed then she shoudl be valedictorian and probably would have one that lawsuit despite anyone her father may know!
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