SCOTT SEXTON STAFF REPORTER

DANBURY, North Carolina — Angela Bonds is typically not a bomb thrower.

But right is right, and because she felt her only son had been shafted out of being named the valedictorian of his high school class, Bonds strode to the mic Monday at a meeting of the Stokes County Board of Education to give members an earful.

Human error led to spring semester grades not being factored into the rankings, and so Matt Grubb was denied an honor he’d earned.

“All of the hard work, all the AP classes, all the college classes, all the nights he was up at 2 a.m. finishing projects after getting home from football, all the mornings he got up at 5 a.m. because he had baseball (that afternoon) … all of it finally paid off,” she said. “Out of all his fellow classmates, he was gra

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