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school in mississippi this year. the parents of two white students, also with impressive grades were unhappy with that outcome after expecting their children to be top of the class. shawn berry said he had been tracking his daughter emma s grade since 7th grade, and she had been receiving highest class rank award since then. melissa borjili was third in the class last year but worked his butt after. turns out this year, west point high school use add system to rank grade point averages that gave extra weight to advanced and duel credit courses, so the gpa of a student who took more rigorous classes is weighted more heavily than a student who took the courses required to get their diploma. essentially, this means ikeria and layla took the tougher classes and scored high marks, placing them at the top of their class, but after reading the fine print in the school s handbook, the partners of the
Just when you thought we may have finally gotten a break from hearing the word “recount” ad nauseum after the most recent election cycle, two white families broke the respite after two Black students beat out their kids for graduation honors at a West Point, Miss., high school.
The students, who each finished their high school careers with GPAs well above a perfect 4.0 – will speak at MSHS’s graduation ceremony on Friday, June 11.