Ah yes. FREEDOM OR DEATH!!!!
Um, unless you have facial hair and the rules of a school that can’t itself meet basic standards forbid it.
If at this point you still can’t see the absurdity and simply backwards priorities that you’re advocating here, no amount of education will help you.
Go ahead and hire all the mind-numbed robots you want. I’ll hire this valedictorian... if I can outbid all the others who want to hire him.
I doubt bidding will be required.
In my line of work discipline is key. I follow the corporate step to making it better for my boss and my patriots.
This comes in a myriad of ways that are visible to the customer.
He is young and will learn.
He should have shaved and took that diploma on stage. He did not and gets to be the next Sally Struthers.