iBot wrote:
SDG wrote:
The Pine View "School for the Gifted" huh? Do they have a headmaster that scoots around in a wheelchair and can read minds? Do they have students that can shoot fire from their eyes or have claws shoot out of their knuckles? Seems like a pretty self serving speech to talk about your self the entire time. Wonder if the other kids in the class were hoping he might say something about their collective experience and not just his curly hair.
I went to three graduations over the weekend and all the Valedictorian and Salutatorian speeches were about what "WE" as a class have been through and not "ME" as a person have done. They made much better speeches in the context of why everyone was there.
Maybe they should have dictated what they could not talk about to make sure that they kept it to WE.
they did in fact dictate what he could and could not talk about and he complied. I am suggesting the better graduation speeches focus on the "we" when you are addressing your classmates and are not used as a stage to discuss yourself alone. He was not the only one graduating and I am anticipate most didnt' care about his self serving quips.
The speech should have been focused on their group accomplishments, the colleges they will be attending, how life is moving onto its next stages, the goals they have as young people in general and then throw in a few funny lines about their collective experience at the school ( the smell in the biology lab freshman year, or the way Mr. Jones would make funny jokes each fourth period and made up nicknames for everyone).
Leave the politics out of it.