'Gut Wrenching:' Texas senior says school pulled her valedictorian title one month before graduation due to 'miscalculation.'

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Maya Veliz told WFAA she's worked for four years to end up first in her class.

BLUE RIDGE, Texas — Blue Ridge High School Senior Maya Veliz will graduate high school next month. What should be one of the most exciting few weeks of her life is anything but.

"It had been, like, the one goal I set myself for the beginning of my freshman year, was, I can do this," she said. Perhaps most importantly she’d already enrolled at the University of Texas, with the belief her first year would be free due to a scholarship awarded at state universities to valedictorians."This is something I wouldn’t want any kid to deal with or any parent," her father, Jorge Veliz, added.

 

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