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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I've probably told this story in the past, but it still bugs me years later.

When I was in high school, we got a big break on car insurance if we took a driver's ed course. Our high school offered such a course.

The problem is that the course was "taught" by our big moronic dimwit football coach whose IQ was an offensive line jersey number. He made the grades subjective so he could give A grades to his football players and the cheerleaders, along with the girls' track team that he coached. No one else ever got an A.

If you were a good student, you could get around this by taking driver's ed as a non-credit course in the summer. But taking it as a non-credit course cost money, whereas if you took it during the school year it was free. So if your family didn't have money, you had to take the course during the school year.

In essence, then, the valedictorian of our school for many years could only be one of those sports team members or a kid whose family had enough money to pay for the summer course. No one else could get the top grade because of the dimwit coach.

And this, my friends, is why I was the salutatorian of my class.

So was the val a jock? Or a rich kid? And I assume a small school, since the criteria resulted in your second place finish?