But, they're not going to give it to her unless she does what they say?
And what if she doesn't do it?
Are they just going to keep her diploma forever?
How does that work?
Does that mean she'll never officially graduate until such time? They are allowed to do that?
Seems that there is a bit of petty tyranny to me. Seems like someone wants to let her know who's the big boss before she leaves.
Someone needs to ‘school’ that principal on the Constitution, and common law on theft of personal property, and extortion................
So the Red Devils’ principal is going to withhold the official diploma of this student who received a full scholarship? That means she cannot officially receive her full scholarship because the school she attends requires an official transcript and diploma before they will hand out her scholarship money. What a jerk this princiPAL is.
Where is it written in the school rules that the school can withhold a diploma because the valedictorian said a bad word in a speech? The Prague Red Devils need to grow up.
Irony: Being punished by a school whose mascot is the Red Devils for saying the word “hell.”
What the hell?
Some of the most bureaucratic, inflexible and narrow-minded people I meet are “educators”
the little foul mouth brat needs to just write the apology and move on with her life.
Amazing—This is coming from a system that has taken God out of the schools, gives out free condoms, teaches homo-sex is ok and much more and is out-raged that someone would use a word that describes where the School system Is-just stunning
Hell AND Damnation, she should have been preaching.
I’d withhold it due to the fact that she lifted this idea from those dumb Twilight movies.
Looks like Jesus would have to apologize as well to get a diploma
Matthew 5:22
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Matthew 5:29
If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:30
And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 18:9
And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Matthew 23:15
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
Matthew 23:33
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
A friend of mine was not allowed to graduate with his class and almost didn’t get his diploma. But not because he said “hell.” He drove his truck through the security gate and was planning driving it into the school and parking it in the common area next to the cafeteria before someone talked him out of it.
That didn’t sit well with the administration.
In polite company, we don’t say “hell”. It’s somewhat vulgar. It certainly doesn’t belong in a valedictorian address. It is somewhat disrespectful and rude.
Constitution? First and second amendments? In a theoretical sense, of course she has a right to say nearly whatever she wants.
Why is it so hard to admit a mistake?
It’s pretty f’n easy, really.
(uh.. oops)
lack a class = lack of class
I can’t get to the school’s home page. When I try to bring it up, I get shunted to the athletic page. Angry protesters on the Internet must be putting its staff through hell.
Obviously I wasn’t there, but based upon what I’ve read in the story, the principal’s response is way overboard here.
Okay, she should have said “heck”, as it was written in the speech. Maybe she planned to say hell, maybe she didn’t. Either way, let it go already. It’s not like she went into a 15-minute routine from Chris Rock or Lenny Bruce. She didn’t even drop an F-bomb. Beyond that, she completed her studies at that high school (in outstanding fashion, though GPA is not the issue here), and is moving on to the next phase of her life. The principal needs to write this off as a senior moment and move on, too.
Hey! “Nootbaar” is my middle name!
Shoulda said “Washington.” We all know that place is hell.
Have you ever done any public speaking? I am an accomplished public speaker (I actually enjoy it). But, under the pressures of the moment, have experienced far worse mental lapses than replacing "heck" with "hell".
Once, speaking to an audience of about ninety (a small audience for me) on a subject on which I am a recognized expert, I twice referred to a friend as "Williams", instead of the correct, "Richardson". Something felt vaguely wrong, but, it wasn't until he pointed it out afterward, I realized what I had actually said...
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The girl is only a high school senior -- speaking to (probably) the largest audience she had ever faced -- at a high point in her life. Drop your holier-than-thou attitude -- and give the young lady a break!!
At least she is still learning something useful about government “administrators”