Official Pull Plug When Graduates Speech Critizes School

[AmandaBrown23]

I think she did what she felt in her heart was the right thing and she was very brave to do this. She needed people to hear and she got the point accross.

 

[Peace261]

In all honesty ... I believe the school admin looked bad by cutting the mircrophone on this young scholar's speech. However .. I do believe it was the wrong place and time for her to take a stand on a PERSONAL AGENDA and I support the school district for doing so.

This young scholar was not attempting to expose the corrupt adminsitration practices ... but rather ... take issue with why SHE was not the greatest student of all her class (rank number 1 ..... not number 2) and that she has had problems .... as an Asian American with securing the same rights and priviledges as other students in her school.

I wounder how many other good students in her school ... applied for and were rejected from attending such a prestigious university that she will have the honorable priviledge of attending.

Young lady and her PARENTS need to get over it and enjoy the priviledge that this young and bright girl has been blessed with! I am sure she earned her way to GEORGTOWN ..... BUT PLEASE ... is it necessary to blame the school admininstration .... after all they MUST HAVE DONE something right to get you where you are at today to attend GEORGTOWN.

A BLESSED THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE THAT HELP YOU SUCCEED CAN GO A LONG WAY AT THIS POINT OF YOUR LIFE.

Peace.

 

[southcitymom]

See, this is the saddest statement posted here. How sad that we have come to believe that this is the truth and that we accept and settle for it -- not just in schools but in life. It is why we have so many people protesting so much that is going on in the world in our country's name, when the majority of our citizens are not wanting to be represented in such a way.

I am planning on running for school board in my district next February. I hope I can remember that there are many who feel what is said here. If children are given the opportunity to be heard, they will hopefully grow up to become citizens who are worth hearing.

Good luck, mostly. I respect your desire to do good from the inside.

I had terrific, affirming experiences in my 12 years of school pre-college. I definitely saw some of the problems firsthand because my Dad worked at this school - but overall, I trusted the adults to have the best interests of the students at heart and I was not routinely let down. The same experience followed me through college.

So far - nothing but positive experiences in the public and private schools my children have attended. That said, should the pendulum shift and I start to see examples of the type of situation bnhall describes, I'll take my kids out and homeschool them. Thank goodness for choices!

 

[Peace261]

School Admin .... Robert Blake ... pulls the plug?

OK slueths ... did'nt Robert Blake play in the TV show "Baretta"?

I understand now.

Peace

 

[bnhall]

Good luck, mostly. I respect your desire to do good from the inside.

I had terrific, affirming experiences in my 12 years of school pre-college. I definitely saw some of the problems firsthand because my Dad worked at this school - but overall, I trusted the adults to have the best interests of the students at heart and I was not routinely let down. The same experience followed me through college.

So far - nothing but positive experiences in the public and private schools my children have attended. That said, should the pendulum shift and I start to see examples of the type of situation bnhall describes, I'll take my kids out and homeschool them. Thank goodness for choices!

My grandpa still laughs about the look on the principal's face when he realized they were caught. That look gave everything away.

It was hard for my grandpa, too, because he is very trusting of people. He can't fathom someone trying to deliberately cheat another person. Yet he is as friendly as can be to the mom who instigated it all. He refuses to be petty like she was.

 

[southcitymom]

My grandpa still laughs about the look on the principal's face when he realized they were caught. That look gave everything away.

It was hard for my grandpa, too, because he is very trusting of people. He can't fathom someone trying to deliberately cheat another person. Yet he is as friendly as can be to the mom who instigated it all. He refuses to be petty like she was.

I aspire to be the type of man he was!