http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article348498.html For those unfamiliar with this story, she's the "disabled" girl who sued her school to be named sole valedictorian (as opposed to co-valedictorian), won, then got caught plagiarizing.
Good advice would be to stay out of court unless there is no other option. The turns and twists are unknowable. I imagine co-valedictorian without all this extra fallout would look awfully good about now. Court is for the very important problems that have no other recourse.
What were her parents thinking? Her father is a state Superior Court Judge. One would have hoped that he would know better. Now she has been humiliated before the world. And why should anyone care about who is valedictorian anyway?
I would like to quote Aesop, but who remembers Aesop? New dissertation idea - Aesop's fables in the 21st century. Anyway the wolves got her.
Who wants to bet that she somehow casts herself as the victim and ends up at Harvard or an equally prestigious school? Bruce
It's ironic that after suing to be the school's sole valedictorian, she didn't even bother to show up. The media spotlight returned recently when she did not appear at her high school graduation and did not deliver the valedictory address for which she had gone to court. The article suggests that her representatives are already rolling out the claims of "victimization". What I wonder is whether all this was her idea or some scheme by her parents to ensure that she was undisputed #1 in her class and sailed into Harvard? If it was her parents playing this game, using her as a pawn, perhaps she is something of a victim, although of a very different sort than her "family spokesmen" pretend she is.