“Deliberately misleading the school with the text she submitted before the speech particularly egregious.”
YES! Finally someone who gets it. I don’t think any of us want to live in a society where 18 year old valdictorans might deviate from the state approved text of their speech. In fact, im not even sure why they get to write their own. It would be better if the school wrote it and she just delivered it. Wait, thats risky too. So maybe the the school should write it, and hire an actress who looks like her to read it.
The crime is that the kid who won valdictorian must submit their speech in advance so it can be censored to the tastes of the administration.
All power to the state! All because someone said hell. This is a joke.
so... you would approve of students shouting profanities and racial slurs or mooning the audience at a graduation ceremony?
heck! why not allow them to assult the principle while there at it!
heck! might as well allow them to grab their teachers ass!
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I was completely serious in my post.I was brought up in a typical 50's/60's home.One of the many things I was taught when young is that there's always a way to express oneself without the use of *any* profanity,even a relatively mild form of it.The use of profanity is a sign of either intellectually laziness or lack of breeding.
The crime is that the kid who won valdictorian must submit their speech in advance so it can be censored to the tastes of the administration.
All power to the state! All because someone said hell. This is a joke.
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Spot on!!
But why expect any better from a government agency?
She said "hell" instead of "heck" which is an easy unconscious slip to make under the circumstance. The rest of the text was apparently as expected.
At a special event for the local bishop a young well rehearsed man said, "reincarnation of Christ" instead of "resurrection of Christ" and he was visibly mortified as soon as the word left his month.
Mistakes are made even by professional speakers, actors, journalists, spokespersons and others.
By all appearances she goofed. If all they wanted was a letter--a ridiculous punishment--she should've written it and moved on unless that was going to become an incident in her permanent record.
Did they inform her of consequences if she deviated from the script? Why approve a script with "heck" if "hell" is deemed inappropriate?