Family Seeks Court Order to Block All Saints Salutatorian Decision Ahead of Graduation

ST. THOMAS – Ahead of the planned graduation ceremony for the All Saints Cathedral School on Thursday, June 4, the courts have received an application for a temporary restraining order to prevent what plaintiffs say would be the conferring of salutatorian status on the wrong student. The civil complaint was filed in Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon by Alaine Lockart-Mollah and Eric Mollah, relatives of a graduating senior who they say is being unfairly deprived of her chance at salutatorian honors due to “manipulation and/or miscalculation of academic grades, weighted averages, credits, and class rankings.”  They accuse the school of failing to post the child’s fourth quarter Environmental Science grades until after the title of salutatorian was already decided. The child, according to the lawsuit, had previously “maintained academic performance to qualify her for salutatorian status under the school’s published and historically applied ranking methodology.”  Despite the missing ...