Cranezilla --Mark Crane's collection of rarely annotated links

First in Her Class: "At Moorestown High, the calculations for valedictorian are made at the end of the first semester senior year. Just a few weeks before that semester ended, Blair dropped AP European History--one of the two courses she was taking at the school--citing exhaustion. 'The papers are killing her,' Judge Hornstine told the child study team while trying to withdraw Blair from the class. At the time, Blair had an A- in the class. It would have been one of the lowest grades of her high school career. "

When I went to high school I barely understood what AP classes were. I used to get excited about B+'s, and didn't realize you could even drop classes.