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To be the valedictorian requires more than just being the top academically. To me it's sort of like the MVP and the person who gets that award is not necessarily the highest scorer or greatest rebounder, it's an overall rating. Whether just the administration chooses or also involves the kids in school, take your pick and go with it.
I don't recall anyone above already mentioning this point, but when I first read the topic of this thread, one extreme "somewhat related" point that came to my mind is the "legend" of Chinese parents in China throwing baby girls off the mountain because they could only accept a baby boy.
My mother and father embody some of the best traits of superior parents, though obviously no one is perfect. They are from a Hungarian heritage, born and raised there and came to the U.S. in the very early 1950's literally with nothing. They were strict, but caring and fair and consistent. Overly strict, at least what to me is too strict, is counterproductive toward developing a child into a well rounded adult.
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