Congratulations, Class of ’08: WSHS graduation tonight

West Seattle High School‘s graduation ceremony is under way in bright sunshine at Seattle Center’s Memorial Stadium right now; we took that photo (and the ones below) a short time ago – the photo above shows the 49 percent who are graduating with honors — including 10 valedictorians with 4.0 averages — were asked to stand and be acknowledged. They wore special gold banners:

Dignitaries there to share the ceremony with the more than 200 grads included West Seattle’s school-board rep Steve Sundquist and district superintendent Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson (third and second from right, respectively):

Seattle Lutheran High School‘s ceremony is 7:30 tonight; Chief Sealth High School grads are honored at 1 pm Saturday (Southwest Athletic Complex across from the school).

Scott B. June 12, 2008 (6:49 pm)

I know grade inflation has been going on for a long time. 49% with honors and ten valedictorians… looks to me as though someone had enough sense to draw a line so that they didn’t have 100% honors and 100% valedictorians.

Thank you WSB for reporting the numbers.