<p>the valedictorian’s speech was brilliant.</p>
<p>Very interesting speech. You can tell she’s going to be somebody some day.</p>
<p>Good speech, I agree with what she said.</p>
<p>But,</p>
<p>I am not going to stop playing the system.</p>
<p>neither am i. don’t think this speech will have much of an impact, but it’s pretty true.</p>
<p>I wonder if she truly believes anything she said or if she is just doing this for attention.</p>
<p>I love her. I mean 4 years of HS and i completely don’t know what I want to do in life either. HS has failed me…</p>
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<p>How is it a failure of the educational system if a young person is undecided about what they want to do in life? I would be more disappointed in the system if everyone came out of high school with too much confidence about their goals.</p>
<p>Because I feel that i never got to explore what I wanted to do in life. i missed out on those brilliant, exciting stories people tell about their childhood. I studied instead. Through those experiences, one learns about what they really want in life. I mean after 4 years in HS; i should at least have a deep passion for something.</p>
<p>but I am empty.</p>
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<p>Could you be more specific?</p>
<p>She’s attending the University at Buffalo. Maybe THAT’S why she’s ticked off at the system.</p>
<p>LOL JK don’t flame.</p>
<p>I agree with her to a certain extent.</p>
<p>Am I the only one that doesn’t agree with her at all? :mad:</p>
<p>I haven’t read anything of her speech, but I support support all anti-school sentiments.</p>
<p>^^You’re probably not. Why don’t you agree with her again though? (I didn’t view your response.)</p>
<p>Because it’s ignorant of the way the world runs… she blames the school for her own imperfection… she makes outrageous assertions…</p>
<p>I don’t think that she’s solely blaming her school though. I think that she’s just providing a general perception of the government schooling system as a whole.</p>
<p>Whatever she’s blaming isn’t the problem. It’s herself</p>
<p>You interpret her perception as an imperfection?</p>
<p>Sounds like me all throughout elementary school, even down to the slave-calling thing. I used to blame the school for molding me into this kind of crappy person who only ‘studied’ for tests. Then I realized I’m only making excuses for my own annoying attitude on everything. So my school’s ghetto and poor? I learned to just say “lol whatever” and do my own thing. </p>
<p>Hell, I’ll even say my school pretty much admits loud and proud that they are making us learn this solely for the tests and because that’s how the system goes. That didn’t stop me from playing video games 24/7, drawing in class, singing opera, or wanting to audition for American Idol. Even with all that, school came first no matter how ridiculously useless the assignment was. If it was to make a paper mache model of the teacher for math class, I’d make it because I wouldn’t want to fail. But it’s not like making that and homework takes you like 9 hours. Nothing’s stopping you from doing some ‘real learning’ on your free time. I’ll admit I hardly study unless there’s a test or unless it’s something I really like, such as drawing or music or jigsaw puzzles. But still, if she really wanted to “learn” that badly she should’ve gone and opened up some books and self studied. But I do credit her for the guts and the speech was pretty good, better than my writing anyway.</p>
<p>I also remember something my Algebra 2 teacher said when a student asked “Are are we ever going to need this in life”. My teacher said “Of course, you’ll need it on next week’s quiz.” Great quote and great teacher. It was like indirectly critiquing the ‘system’ as well as following it.</p>
<p>*You must think I’m a joke!
I ain’t gonna be part of this system!</p>
<p>What you think I’m stupid?
I’m not a part of this system!*</p>
<p>I think she’s a whiny hippy.</p>