It’s hard to understand what she was saying that was so questionable, but that Principal seems like an a-hole.

I too was not able to understand what she was saying, but agree to the ‘I got six hours of action last night’ comment. How rude- the principal should have read the speech ahead of time! It almost sounded like the young lady was holding back tears after being interrupted. RUDE!!!

@Jennifer — From what I gather, the principal knew the original version and that the girl was reading it, which is why she interrupted her. However, surely the principal had more important and pressing things to worry about.

yup she just sucked all the fun and glory out of being valedictorian. what a great principal!!!!

This was very sad to me and i;m very glad it wasn’t my child who was interrupted or i would have been having a meeting with the district office. No one could care less about the staff at graduation “woohoo you got another class through, you’ll do it again next year who gives a crap” These ceremonies for the parents who had to yank them out of bed or run them to school and be late for work because they missed the bus. For the moms who gave birth some 18 years ago and have been chasing them around and helping them grow up since and for the kids who have spent the last 12 years, plus kindergarten and usually preschool all in school and are now beginning their life as an adult. If the speech was changed or edited it should have been brought up to the student ahead of time and decided upon. That would have been the most adult, responsible and professional thing to do and they are the ones who ended up looking stupid and ruined a ceremony these poor parents have been waiting the last 12+ years for. Way to go you jerks!

I’m not usually the one to say stuff like this, but none of us really knows the whole story here. Maybe the school had had very embarrassing problems with very inappropriate graduation speechs in the past. And maybe the girl really did know about the changes, but really just wanted to read her original speech and claimed ignorance after. Just because someone is smart doesn’t mean they follow the rules to a T. I’m not saying any of these are true, but they’re very plausible details that we could very easily not know of. If there had been no past speech problems and the girl really didn’t know about the changes, then the principle was indeed very rude. During a speech is no time to cover your a** because you never told a student about speech changes.

@Elpasooo — Why would the principal even need to read her speech ahead of time? The girl was smart enough to be valedictorian;I hardly think she needed a censor or proofreader. She’s mature enough to do a play on words in a funny way. As for what state the school is in (which I’ve since changed — thanks for pointing out my error) — it has no bearing on my opinion.