Re: I met a girl last night, she is a high school senior
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I see this is a debasing of language, in that changing the meaning of being a valedictorian into something only tangentially related to grades -- and different for each school -- basically guts the word and the concept.
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Not that Wikipedia is a 100% legit source, but:
"The term is an anglicized derivation of the Latin vale dicere ("to say farewell"), historically rooted in the valedictorian's traditional role as the final speaker at the graduation ceremony."
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