Valedictorian denied diploma over speech
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Valedictorian denied diploma over speech
Cool. I'm all for delivering scathing remarks in a public forum. The choice of venue might not have been quite appropriate, but if the administration really isn't willing to talk to the students about the issue (and someone on Student Council is likely to know that), and tried to hush up anyone trying to draw attention to the issues, this may have been the only place possible to attract the appropriate attention to the issue. If nothing it else, it took a lot of courage to make a speech like that, and I think it rules.
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Whether she even had a game-plan or not, their actions really did play right into her hands. Their actions have given the issue much more publicity than it probably would have received, had they just given her a few dirty looks and let her on her way.
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I don't think anyone ever asked me anything about my highschool diploma for the four jobs I had in college. Usually they have that little check box thing and I would check "some college" for highest level of education.
This girl could also whip out the newspaper clippings. Thats far better evidence of her graduating highschool than a diploma!
This girl could also whip out the newspaper clippings. Thats far better evidence of her graduating highschool than a diploma!
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Many colleges stipulate "accetance to our school is contingent on you actually graduating high school and receiving your diploma." They may make an exception for this (I'd imagine they would) and they may even issue their own "high-school" diploma if she never receives the one from her previous school. I believe at least some colleges can do that, in theory, they just don't usually need to or want to get into secondary education. In that case it would be entirely on transfer credit, so they could probably get away with it.Rev wrote:Eh, she already go into college anyway. The highschool diploma is totally worthless once you do that anyway.
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They backed down the next day.mrmooky wrote:I think it's a safe bet that the school will back down within a week.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/s ... 8321c.html
She gets her diploma tommorrow in a specially planned ceremony. (July 1)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/artic ... er_speech/
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Love this ending on the second article:
You know you're done fucked up something, when the mayor characterizes your behavior as "bonehead" (sic).Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday called the withholding of the diploma "a bonehead thing to do by somebody."
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This brings up a question: are diplomas a school thing or a state thing? I know in the province I went to, some schools [including mine] offered a high school diploma of their own, in addition to the provincial diploma. You could still graduate from high school yet not graduate from YOUR high school, which is exactly what I did.
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