A recent high school graduate in Arkansas has filed a lawsuit against her former school after the school officials refused to allow her to be her class’s sole valedictorian, even though she had the highest grade-point average. The student, Kymberly Wimberly, who is African American, alleges in her suit that the school’s decision was part of a pattern of racial discrimination. Courthouse News reports that once school officials realized Wimberly had the highest GPA of the class of 2011, school administrators named a white student with a lower GPA as her fellow valedictorian. Wimberly’s mother, who works at the school, says she overheard an official calling her valedictorian status a “big mess.”