Fort Bend ISD Valedictorians hijacked

A new policy in the Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD) has sparked outrage among some parents and students, particularly at predominantly Black schools. The policy, voted on in 2019, went into effect this year and allows students who have never attended a particular campus to be ranked according to the school they are zoned to based on their home address. That means if a student chooses to attend one of the district’s nine programs of choice at the high school level, their class rank will be calculated by comparing them to students that attend the campus they are zoned to attend rather than comparing them to students at the school or program where they actually take classes.