Margaret Talbot's article "Best in Class" begins with her
speaking about Daniel Kennedy (a principal in Sarasota, Florida) and a time when he
"still thought valedictorians were a good thing." Tablot goes on to illustrate the highs
and lows of the "gruelling trajectory" of becoming a
valedictorian.
While Talbot offers many different stories,
from different ares of the nation, she does not seem to offer a view of her own. What it
seems that she is doing, instead, is allowing people to see the problems which arise
from the race to the top.
True to journalistic nature,
Talbot stays objective in her offering of different view regarding single, multiple, or
no valedictorian at the high school level throughout the
article.
At the end of her article, Talbot offers her
opinion on both sides:
In some ways, it seems that the valedictorian is
a status designed for a simpler time, when fewer people aspired to
college.
and
Still, perhaps something is lost if schools
eliminate
valedictorians.
Basically, in
the end, Talbot simply does not have the best answer. Similarly, neither does the
country.
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