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Valedictorian denied high school diploma for saying hell in speech

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when news sites in other countries are posting something this inconsequential, you gotta think they believe the US is just a bit 'off'

News.com.au

Valedictorian denied high school diploma for saying hell in speech

A STRAIGHT-A student in the US has reportedly been denied her high school diploma for saying the word "hell" in her valedictory speech.

Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Oklahoma’s Prague High School back in May of this year and was named valedictorian. In her graduating speech which was inspired by the film Eclipse: The Twilight Saga, she accidentally said the word "hell" instead of "heck"- a move which her father claims has cost her dearly.

"Her quote was, when she first started school she wanted to be a nurse, then a veterinarian and now that she was getting closer to graduation people would ask her what do you want to do and she said ‘How the h*** do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many times," David Nootbaar told local TV station KFor.

The audience laughed and she was given a round of applause at the end of her speech.
 
Seriously? I'd tell them to take the diploma and shove it up their asses. I might even say the F-word in the process.
 
Next thing you know, she'll be exposing her college peers to the d-word and maybe even the a-word. Our youth these days... so vulgar and inappropriate. I just pray that somebody can lead that wild, off the hook Valedictorian on to the right path.
 
Um, saying hell isn't the problem here. The problem is that her speech was inspired by Twilight. For that she should be made to remediate her entire high school career.
 
If she met the requirements for graduation she should ge the diploma.
 
Um, saying hell isn't the problem here. The problem is that her speech was inspired by Twilight. For that she should be made to remediate her entire high school career.

I definitely cringed at the Twilight reference.
 
Yeah but then you aren't 18 any longer. :cool:

I like vampire books and True Blood on HBO is one of my favourite shows but Twilight - eh.

True Blood is infinitely better than Twilight.

Eric Northman!! OMG.
 
TIO my friends

This is Oklahoma

Oklahoma is the home of Elmore City which banned dancing for 100 years.

Can't be letting those kids get too uppity, can't be letting them cuss. It will start a slide down that slippery slope to perdition. :roll:

Thinking the school board will issue the certificate soon enough. Point was made.

Silly crap like this must happen other places, but TIO.
 
Why on earth would anyone take the side of the disobedient child in this dispute?
 
She's valedictorian, but she enjoys the Twilight sage?

Denying someone a diploma based off something as trivial as saying 'hell' is nonsensical.
 
I'd sue the hell out of them. Diplomas are presented for academic achievement, not for political gain. Clearly, as class valedictorian, she earned the diploma. They'd damn well better give it to her.
 
You seriously side with the judgment of the school board, or are you merely joking?
If I understand this correctly, a student gave a speech using language in violation of school policy and refused to apologize when asked. How could anyone support that?
 
If I understand this correctly, a student gave a speech using language in violation of school policy and refused to apologize when asked. How could anyone support that?

While that may be the rule of the school board, that doesn't mean it's legitimate nor reasonable.
 
While that may be the rule of the school board, that doesn't mean it's legitimate nor reasonable.

Rules are rules. I can't believe the petulant attitude I am seeing here, it is shocking that any mature adult would defend the behavior of this disobedient child.
 
Rules are rules. I can't believe the petulant attitude I am seeing here, it is shocking that any mature adult would defend the behavior of this disobedient child.

Sometimes rules need to be broken. A little disobedience goes a long way to ensuring that people don't become over-compliant with any relation to authority and take a skeptical perspective with established methods of social conduct.
 
Rules are rules. I can't believe the petulant attitude I am seeing here, it is shocking that any mature adult would defend the behavior of this disobedient child.

No where does it say it was a violation of school rules, you made that up. And besides what kind of Libertarian supports the idea of public schools, part of the government, being allowed to tell people what they can and cannot say to this kind of a degree.
 
Seriously? I'd tell them to take the diploma and shove it up their asses. I might even say the F-word in the process.

I would definitely say the F-word, along with the F-you-word, the S-word, the CS-words, the MF-words...well...you get the picture. :rofl
 
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