'Thank you for letting me fend for myself': High school valedictorian blasts 'alcoholic' teacher and

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'Thank you for letting me fend for myself': High school valedictorian blasts 'alcoholic' teacher and 'unavailable' counselor in shocking graduation speech

    Valedictorian Nataly Buhr shocked San Ysidro High School staff and students with her graduation speech on June 6 in San Diego, California
    She slammed the school's staff saying her counselor was 'unavailable', administrators were negligent, and a teacher was drunk on the job
    'Thank you for using yourself to teach these students about the dangers of alcoholism. Being escorted out of school left a lasting impression,' she said
    She claimed her counselor ignored appointments with the student and her parents but beamed with pride when she was named valedictorian   
    In video of the speech students gasp in shock and cover their mouths
    'I was hoping to encourage more students to speak up,' Nataly said of speech
    The school district says her speech was pre-approved but she went off-script

By Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:37 EDT, 13 June 2019 | Updated: 15:08 EDT, 13 June 2019

more w/video
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7137565/Valedictorian-blasts-alcoholic-teacher-unavailable-counselor-graduation-speech.html

[jmyrlefuller]

 

[Hoodat]

She's lucky they didn't strip her of her valedictorian award.

[truth_seeker]

She's lucky they didn't strip her of her valedictorian award.

For what? 

I applaud her ffor "telling it like it is."

Criticism of counselor, office stafe, one teacher.

I assume she has specifics, because she cited them.

If the police escorted a teacher away, there is a record.

[DCPatriot]

I'll take the 'Over' on how long it will be before they designate another valedictorian for graduation.   

[Wingnut]

That is going on her permanent record.

[goatprairie]

That is going on her permanent record.

I've always wondered what happened to all the students who received the dreaded punishment of an offense that went on their permanent record. I remember the threat from the teachers.
I never did burn down my school. Maybe the threat of it going on my permanent record dissuaded me. 

[Wingnut]

I've always wondered what happened to all the students who received the dreaded punishment of an offense that went on their permanent record. I remember the threat from the teachers.
I never did burn down my school. Maybe the threat of it going on my permanent record dissuaded me. 

Funny story about that.  In college, I think my Jr. year I was working on campus at the student union cafeteria to pick up beer money.  One day I got into it with one of the lifers over something (I can't even remember now)  anyway I said: Take this job and shove it up your....... I am out of here.   She said, and I quote:  "This will go on your permanent record"   Funny I never saw it.  But I never was able to work for the university again!   

[goatprairie]

Funny story about that.  In college, I think my Jr. year I was working on campus at the student union cafeteria to pick up beer money.  One day I got into it with one of the lifers over something (I can't even remember now)  anyway I said: Take this job and shove it up your....... I am out of here.   She said, and I quote:  "This will go on your permanent record"   Funny I never saw it.  But I never was able to work for the university again!   

About 40 some years ago while attending college I drove into a restricted parking lot of a drug store across the street from the college to buy something I cannot now remember. It was around seven at night.
Anyway as I exited my car and walked towards the store, a college cop lurched out of his hiding spot and gave me a ticket for parking in the totally empty lot. Five dollar fine.
When I came back to my car and  looked at the ticket, I threw it into my glove compartment and proceeded to never pay it as I was sick of school, working full time, and ready to drop out.  I didn't see the point.
Sixteen years later I decided to get my college degree and went back to my old school. When I enrolled I expected the registrar to haul out some piece of paper declaring I owed the school for the parking fine which was probably now eleventy billion dollars. "Ha!!! pay this fine scofflaw, or you can't enroll."
They never produced anything, and I certainly didn't say anything. Managed to graduate without paying the parking ticket. I assume after a few years they threw out all their old parking tickets. Good thing none of that stuff was computerized.

[Gefn]

I hated high school too. Had one decent teacher, the rest should have never taught. My guidance counselor was useless, and no adult but the same teacher believed how badly I was bullied

College made me think I actually WAS smart and had something to offer to the world. And raised my self esteem.

I love Paul Simon’s line “when I think back at all the crap I learned in High School”

Kudos to this young woman

[Slide Rule]

Bright young woman. And from the student body response
know that she is their leader. Well Done.

[Gefn]

Bright young woman. And from the student body response
know that she is their leader. Well Done.

@Slide Rule I’ve read Feynman and I own the Norman Davies book . Adding the other ones to my reading list thank you. 

[mountaineer]

So many people speak fondly of the teacher(s) from K-12 who had such a positive effect on their lives. I can't think of a single one. Some of them were likable enough, but none made a difference. The guidance counselor's office was just a place where a few college catalogs were displayed. There was no counseling. Perhaps I should have been a troublemaker, just for the attention! 

[Cyber Liberty]

I'll take the 'Over' on how long it will be before they designate another valedictorian for graduation.   

It's a little late for that.   

[edpc]

She may have been 100% correct, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it was advisable. Prospective future employers don’t really appreciate bridge burners.

[mountaineer]

She may have been 100% correct, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it was advisable. Prospective future employers don’t really appreciate bridge burners.

I agree. It may be cathartic to vent, but not necessarily prudent (or classy).

[Sanguine]

I agree. It may be cathartic to vent, but not necessarily prudent (or classy).

Yep.  Wrong place, wrong time. 

[DCPatriot]

She may have been 100% correct, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it was advisable. Prospective future employers don’t really appreciate bridge burners.

LOL  News Flash....  nobody gives a damn what the content of her HIGH SCHOOL speech was.   

She was the Valedictorian.  End of story.

[jmyrlefuller]

She may have been 100% correct, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it was advisable. Prospective future employers don’t really appreciate bridge burners.

Only the ones just as corrupt as the public school teachers. Those kinds don't know the value of good work anyway.

[goatprairie]

This was not the time and place for her to vent. The graduation ceremony wasn't about her. And no high school is perfect. My guidance counselor was worthless too, but I wouldn't go on a rant about him if given a chance. I wasn't close to being valedictorian anyway.
If I were a prospective employer (which I'm not), she would not be on my list as she appears to think very highly of herself.

[jmyrlefuller]

This was not the time and place for her to vent. The graduation ceremony wasn't about her. And no high school is perfect. My guidance counselor was worthless too, but I wouldn't go on a rant about him if given a chance. I wasn't close to being valedictorian anyway.
If I were a prospective employer (which I'm not), she would not be on my list as she appears to think very highly of herself.

Don't most prospective employers value self-confidence, though?

[goatprairie]

Don't most prospective employers value self-confidence, though?

Sure thing.
At any rate I would not hire some person who had so little thought about the feelings of her fellow graduates that she thought ranting about her personal problems with the school was the right thing to do. I don't care if a number of them, her fellow students,  put her up to it.  That was not the time and place.

[Wingnut]

Kids today.  It's all about me me me.  Self-absorbed bed wetters.

[Smokin Joe]

This was not the time and place for her to vent. The graduation ceremony wasn't about her. And no high school is perfect. My guidance counselor was worthless too, but I wouldn't go on a rant about him if given a chance. I wasn't close to being valedictorian anyway.
If I were a prospective employer (which I'm not), she would not be on my list as she appears to think very highly of herself.

I disagree. She was not (from the reaction in the crowd) the only student to suffer the incompetence, absence, and other problems which they all had to deal with as students. These people weren't doing their jobs and she called them out on it.

Why is that important? It won't make her future any better, but by shaming the institutional snakes in front of parents and others, perhaps some people will be held to task in the future or replaced by those who will do their jobs better. For those still students there, that could have a great effect, for her, none. The reaction of those in the gowns and mortarboards said it all.

I'd hire her, all other things equal, in a New York Second.  I like people who will tell it like it is, just tell me first.

[goatprairie]

I disagree. She was not (from the reaction in the crowd) the only student to suffer the incompetence, absence, and other problems which they all had to deal with as students. These people weren't doing their jobs and she called them out on it.

Why is that important? It won't make her future any better, but by shaming the institutional snakes in front of parents and others, perhaps some people will be held to task in the future or replaced by those who will do their jobs better. For those still students there, that could have a great effect, for her, none. The reaction of those in the gowns and mortarboards said it all.

I'd hire her, all other things equal, in a New York Second.  I like people who will tell it like it is, just tell me first.

We'll have to disagree.  Maybe her story is true...maybe it isn't.  So what? Her hs wasn't perfect? What ones are? If I gave a valedictorian speech at my hs, I could have called out a number of people in the admin, including the guidance counselor, who I thought were useless. That included a few religious people as well.
She chose that moment to rant about something personal.  She was out of line.