She scored a 1570 out of 1600 on the SAT and is deciding whether to attend Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Princeton or Cornell -- all of which have accepted her.

But despite her best-in-her-class grades, her school district wants to name her co-valedictorian with two other students.

Hornstine, the 18-year-old daughter of a state Superior Court judge, has asked a federal judge to intervene, saying that being forced to share with students with lesser grades would detract from what she has accomplished.

I think it's a shame that our first response when something doesn't go out way is to search for someone to sue.

She's not the first, of course.

In the last year alone, judges have been asked to consider similar cases in Ohio, Washington and Michigan. In two of the cases, students who wanted to be included as co-valedictorians were allowed by judges to be included. The third case, in Michigan, involves a student who wanted an A changed to an A+ so he would be more likely to be valedictorian.

Would it even have occurred to me when I was in high school to sue the school district because I wasn't named Valedictorian? I think I was the third in my class--maybe I could have sued somebody to increase a grade or something so that I could have been second, or even first.

Certainly it's good, I suppose, to question authority in some cases, but in cases like this, what does it really accomplish? Gets you publicity, I guess, if that's what you're looking for.

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