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As a teacher in an American school, I will tell you that this news is appalling. This angers me beyond belief. The school district has already gone out of their way for her, and now she wants money. That's what this comes down to. "You wont give me what I want, so I want ridiculous amounts of money."
We had a situation in our district with the Valedictorian last year. Our district, being 65% Hispanic, has a great deal of parents (and students) who cannot speak or understand English. This young lady wrote her speech for graduation in both English and Spanish. The Board of Education and Superintendent would not approve her speech. She thought it was because she planned on doing it in Spanish. The young lady got the media involved which angered her classmates as well as the school district. She claimed it was discrimination and was bringing the school district to court.
The reason why the speech was not being approved: It was WAY too long. The Valedictorian's speech is limited to 5 minutes in length. Her's was 5 minutes for English, 5 for Spanish. So she doubled the length of speech time. Time limits are important because the location of the event is a theater that has other events taking place. She didn't see the time limit as the offending portion of her speech.
I still don't understand how she could think that the Spanish portion of her speech would be offensive. Every year that we've had a Valedictorian who was Hispanic, the speech has been delivered in both English and Spanish (and kept under the 5 minutes).
If this is any indication of the types of students we are releasing into the world for our futures, I'm a little frightened of the outcome.
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