[Harry Rex Vonner]

Parable:

Barry enters his senior year in high school ranked 60th in his class. He graduates 25th in his class. All his family and friends are very proud of Barry and expect great things from him in the future.

Surprisingly, it is learned that Barry's GPA never changed from the beginning to end of his senior year. It was 2.5 throughout. What happened to make Barry look so good?

Further examination of the facts indicates that 35 of Barry's classmates who had higher GPAs than Barry had dropped out of school during their senior year.

Barry doesn't look so good now, does he? As goes the class rank so goes the unemployment figure.