Wait out the first minute to get to the gold.
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Another indulged, entitled kid with few manners.
There, of course, is an adult way to handle her grievances. She chose the route of a 12 year-old.
What a world view - everyone in her little sphere exists to serve her. For those that failed to appropriately cater to her, they shall be outed. Gratitude and humility are old people values anyway.
I see a bright future as a university diversity administrator, filled with many grievance lawsuits.
Good luck at Oberlin, kid.
It sounded like some of the faculty and admin needed to get called out.
Negligence to inform her of scholarships? WTF? Find them yourself, or don't. It's not their fault.
That was horrid. Even if she didn't call anyone out (which was terrible), it was self-centered and uninspired. I've never heard a Valedictorian address that was about the Valedictorian before.
If the whole school knew that a teacher was loaded every day and yet nothing was done about it, then there was clearly a problem with the administrators. If you don’t want to be called out for letting that happen, don’t let it happen. Ditto lazy office staff and counselors. F them.
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It's driven by their negligent parents who blame other adults for all the missteps and failures of their kids.
She does a good job, but I understand parents (who are often working harder for less money) being chagrined when the school guidance counselor is a mope.
Again, par for the course these days. Her parents probably thought it was great.
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1) Lack of respect for adults
2) Petulant
3) Vengeful - unChristian
4) Selfish (to all of the other students, teachers, and parents looking to have a happy celebration)
5) Lack of personal responsibility - it’s her job to find those scholarships as well
6) Foolish - does she think that these new permanent enemies have no further influence over her?
I would be terribly embarrassed as a parent if one of my children did this. Fortunately, I cannot imagine them ever doing this.
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She could very well be the first person in her family to attend college. Fuck the lazy guidance counselor. He got called out...bravo. I bet every teacher in that district is in the 95th % of income in the district, shitting on the people whose taxes pay their salaries. Sorry they feel aggrieved.
There are a lot of assumptions and connecting of dots here that are not necessarily accurate. It is a one sided public presentation where the accused counsellor had no chance to respond (can you think of any recent high profile political investigations that did the same thing?).
Accusations were made and guilt was assigned without hearing the whole story. Remember the Covington Catholic kid and how sure everyone was about his guilt?
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Didn't think you would, either..
The only way to effect change is to make some waves. Doing it behind the scenes would have accomplished nothing.
I don’t think it’s this girls place to do this, and she also has limited information from which she made these public accusations that can permanently cripple the careers of hard working people who were likely trying their best to help her.
If there is a problem, you start with the parents bringing the issue to the school board. If you get nowhere, it is still the parent’s place to follow up on it.
Having an 18 yr old call out counsellers at a valedictorian speech just isn’t right, and it is unfair.
no issue with her approach. obviously, she has to live with the consequences.
After all, that counselor worked hard for hundreds of students and is now being called out by the one who had the most success?
One email and that acceptance could be rescinded in a heart beat.
It was horribly wrong imo for the reasons that I stated above, but it was even more stupid.
based on family and friend's experience at their schools. Your second line is part of the problem. One email could rescind the acceptance...that's the issue and the power too many educators wield. When stroking egos, making contributions and zipping lips is necessary to "get along," there's a problem. The business world is full of that shit; this probably is the last time that student will ever be able to truly speak her mind.