I’d hire her. She should be applauded for calling them out.
If her story about the intoxicated teacher is true, there needs to be serious investigation.
Someone as qualified as that shouldn’t need help, and certainly shouldn’t need to go out of her way to make others look bad in that kind of speech. Sorry, I disagree, and think that was not the time nor the place for that kind of speech. Respectfully, CAZD
But a valedictorian speech is not the time and place for vicious attacks, true or not.
She should have gone to the school principal privately and bring up the problems. I cannot believe that they would have been ignored.
We had one in fifth grade who terrorized the students, screamed in their faces, ridiculed them when they could not complete a program on the chalk board.
She’d place students under her desk and kick them if they moved. She would pull students out of their chairs by their hair.
The teaching assistant who had been assigned to her was terrified of her and not once stopped the abuse. The principal and other teaches did nothing. She was an old hag who had been a teacher in the Holbrook, Massachusetts school system for a long time.
Over forty years later I can still smell the cigarette smoke and blackberry brandy on her as she screamed in my face.
I hope she rots in hell. I hope the damned teaching assistant does too.
Why did she wait until graduation to report the teacher who was intoxicated?
Hah! Don't you know that anything goes in Gubmint union schools these days? Especially in California.
I had to take an art class in HS. The female teacher was well known as a drunk; she was always “loopy”. During the class time, she would leave about three times to “go to the restroom” and always took her purse, where her booze was carried. ....This was in the late 1950s.
She lives in the past and she will not make a good employee. She will constantly find faults with other people whenever she has any short falls. I feels sorry for anyone looking at hiring her. She will constantly plan to get even with people that might have done something to her. Pray that she will learn to forgive and look at all those obstacles as opportunities for what she had accomplished.