Originally Posted by filtherton

If the purpose of valedictorian is to recognize acheivement, why shouldn't multiples be given out? Fears of diluting "specialness" are silly; I would suspect that even in instances of multiple valedictorians, there is a sufficient number of nonvaledictorians to meet the nebulous quota of nonspecial students you seem to have.

Everyone *is* unique, the uniformity if this uniqueness in no way diminishes individual uniqueness.