So I'm reading the article, is the daughter (the student) seeking damages on her own or is the mother seeking damages on her behalf? Basically I'm curious as to if it's a "Student is denied status due to race and seeks justice" or a "Mother living through daughter seeking justice". Obviously either way the situation shouldn't have come up in the first place but it does change how I look at the people involved.
As for predominately, so far as I knew it simply meant to be mostly made up of, or to have the most of. To have a majority, or simply more then half of. So even if it was 50.1% white and 49.9% black it would still be predominately white. Simply because it is mostly made up of white. Barely, but still mathematically more whites then blacks. Although in that situation one would probably just go 50/50 as opposed to splitting hairs. I don't know of a word that would be used to indicated a large majority other then... large majority (huzza adjectives!).
Either way though, fairly stupid to say someone can't be valedictorian because they didn't happen to be in the majority of students... In fact, isn't the valedictorian supposed to be someone who climbs above the rank and file of people and excels above all else in their academic achievement? Shouldn't that alone mean that it also transcends race/sex/whatever? These people have no idea what words are do they?
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Date: 2011-07-27 06:43 am (UTC)As for predominately, so far as I knew it simply meant to be mostly made up of, or to have the most of. To have a majority, or simply more then half of. So even if it was 50.1% white and 49.9% black it would still be predominately white. Simply because it is mostly made up of white. Barely, but still mathematically more whites then blacks. Although in that situation one would probably just go 50/50 as opposed to splitting hairs. I don't know of a word that would be used to indicated a large majority other then... large majority (huzza adjectives!).
Either way though, fairly stupid to say someone can't be valedictorian because they didn't happen to be in the majority of students... In fact, isn't the valedictorian supposed to be someone who climbs above the rank and file of people and excels above all else in their academic achievement? Shouldn't that alone mean that it also transcends race/sex/whatever? These people have no idea what words are do they?