Judge grants N.J. student’s request to be named valedictorian

Refer to this post for the background.

Attention Blair Hornstine:

You are a spoiled, litigious, whining, stuck-up, brat who does not deserve any of the honors you are going to receive. Yes, you have a 4.0 GPA, phatty SAT scores, and Ivy League colleges vying for your attention. Yes, you have an immune deficiency and you’ve had difficulties. You also have had quite a few advantages, such as working with tutors and taking fewer classes. You have had more advantages than the students with whom you would have to share your valedictorian title. Yes… you have the higher grades, but they have more classes, meaning that their chances at even competing with you are lessened.

You are obviously too stuck up to care that the students you just robbed of equal honors probably don’t have the advantages you had and probably are working part-time to pay for college. If you (with the help of your equally blinded parents) are seeking $500,000 in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages, you can probably afford those schools without financial aid. The students who would have been your co-valedictorians probably aren’t that well-off and probably are having to rely on some pretty heavy scholarships that would have been contingent on them being named valedictorian. In other words, your selfishness for recognition just sold out your fellow classmates.

You claim that sharing would detract from what you have accomplished. Let me just say that your egotistical attitude and your little quest for glory have detracted from it far more than having to share. Do you really think that your classmates and their parents are going to listen to your little speech? What are you going to do when you get to Harvard and realize that you are not special and you have to actually compete with *other* kids who were the valedictorians of their classes and got that title honestly instead of suing to get it? Are you going to sue the university for not making you feel special enough?

And seriously, $500,000 in compensatory damages with the large punitive sum? Yes, let’s rape the school district’s funds because your stupid pride was hurt. Chica, you are not worth $5,000 let alone $500,000. I’m hoping that the judge who hears your case has a whole lot more sense than the asnine district judge who granted your request.

You say you want to be a lawyer? I pray that every law school you apply to rejects you on the grounds that you have crappy ethics for marring the image of the legal system in this country with your frivilous lawsuits. In fact, I hope that all of those Ivy League schools rescind their acceptance decisions and that you are forced to attend a *gasp* second-tier school where you’ll learn some humility.

And yes, I know you have an immune deficiency. So do I. I missed 3 weeks of school during AP tests during my senior year in addition to other times when the flu or a cold flattened me worse than everyone else. In college, I was hospitalized for a week during the last quarter of my senior year and barely made it to classes for the rest of the year because I was so tired and my stomach was refusing much of what I was placing in it. During my first year, I had almost a constant case of bronchitis or pneumonia and my second year, I was barely passing all my classes because my depression was so bad. I graduated with honors and having to share my cum laude distinction with others (who had a much easier time than I did) didn’t detract from my personal sense of victory that I had because *I MADE IT DESPITE EVERYTHING*. If a personal sense of victory isn’t enough and you need people to constantly praise you, you really need to work on your self-esteem.

I hope that your classmates egg you while you speak. I hope that enough people are outraged by this and that they write to all the schools that accepted you to tell them to rescind their acceptance decisions. I hope you lose your stupid lawsuit and I hope that the judge in that case tells you how much of a sniveling little brat you are and that you deserve *NONE* of the money for which you are suing. I hope that your parents have to pay the legal fees for the school district for letting you do this. Most of all, I hope that everyone at the college you attend recognizes you and tells you to your face about how much of a spoiled brat you are and how you don’t deserve to be there.