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the one kid who turned four years of extra credit into a speech nobody remembers.
means the top-ranked graduate of a class, chosen to give the farewell speech at graduation.
from from latin vale dicere, to say farewell — the role was literally invented to deliver the goodbye speech, ranking got bolted on later.
latin rootsvale, farewell plus dicere, to say
not universalmany countries have no equivalent honor at all
gpa arms racesome schools now crown multiple co valedictorians yearly