News: High school valedictorian denied diploma

[MaryleeII]

Originally Posted by purehuman

Who would have thought the word "hell" would cause so much controversy....it shouldn't have, not when she was addressing a room full of adults like herself, if she's lacking in common sense, then the ones with-holding her diploma are lacking even more.

They say Hell in church, don't they?

[nana053]

Originally Posted by marigolds6

Not according to the article quoted above. She was retelling a conversation she had with her own father.

Kaitlin Nootbar Refuses to Apologize for Graduation Speech : People.com

The change, she said, came to her thanks to the movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, in which during a graduation scene the speaker says, "Who the hell knows?" Her classmates also egged her on, she said on Today.

[shiftymh]

Originally Posted by Thomas_Thumb

Is the school being silly. Yes, but how hard is it to write a few lines and diffuse the whole problem. To my opinion, both sides are very thin-skinned.

Have you considered that maybe she is not sorry? An apology would be dishonest.