Posted on 06/25/2021 11:52:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A valedictorian from New Jersey says his high school tried to censor his graduation speech, first making him remove parts about sexuality and mental health, then cutting him off as he spoke at graduation.
Eighteen-year-old Bryce Dershem, who graduated from Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, told CBS News he originally wrote a speech about being queer and dealing with mental health issues, but Principal Robert Tull told him to change it.
Dershem said he spent months in treatment for anorexia and didn't even know if he'd be able to graduate, let alone become valedictorian. "As soon as I heard that [I was valedictorian], I knew I really wanted to talk about my story and ending the silence on mental health struggles. And really giving queer people a voice too and letting people know no matter who you are, you're not alone," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Why do gays always want to talk about their peckers?
Many young people have grown up telling everything about themselves to everybody online in Social Media.
I speculate that most of them don’t understand the value of
terms such as privacy, discretion and diplomacy.
They have come to expect any gathering to be similar to a Kardashian Reality Show.
Another example of what’s common these days:
There is a cable show called Red Table, hosted by Jada Pinkett, wife of actor Will Smith. They specialize in extreme close examination/ discussion of all that is personal, vulgar and or embarrassing. I haven’t watched it, but have seen it mentioned in articles.
This full frontal disclosure to strangers has been the expectation, perhaps the norm to many people under 40.
hmmm. graduated early. how queer.
i do not think this high school student realized that homosexuality is the norm these days.
This person presumably earned the ACADEMIC honor. He should be allowed to speak his mind on THE ACADEMICS OF how he got there.
Being bent as a nine-Bob note does ZILCH for your GPA, though it could indirectly crash it as your mind is embroiled in battle with the mental demons you spawned by spurning the immutable testimony of Nature and your own DNA.
Getting to the podium and describing how you brought Hell down on your own psyche, but fished first despite the consequences of your own stupidity...
I guess that’s... “overcoming”...?
Seems like chopping your own leg off, then taking first in the Boston Marathon.
Yeah, you get the brag, but with the asterisk that you’re a sick, twisted, eternal dumbass; a.k.a. unemployable.
The last graduation I attended many of the attendees cheered despite being told not to. It made it last forever. I wish they would just drop the graduation ceremonies because we as a society can’t handle them anymore.
The Valedictorian speech is not supposed to be about the Valedictorian. Everyone already knows he/she earned it.
I can’t think of a more selfish use of the time as this guy wanted to do.
You all raise excellent points.
Keep them in mind, however, when a school tells the valectorian that she cannot talk about Christ.
See post 27
Mine too.
I agree with you. And other than some generalizations about a few subjects, it is NOT a time for someone to tell all about what a victimhood they have endured to get there, IMO.
Faith isn’t an exercise in psyche-crippling self-sabotage; it is empowering, and ennobling, not debilitating and execrable.
The rainbow never has nor never will mean that the best sex is the kind that tears up your butthole.
What in blazes does its genitals have to do with graduation other than the science department is failing?
Homosexuals I know are highly narcissistic. They feel the need to dish on everything. And now that the Left and US media has made them cultural heroes, they won’t STFU.
Mine not.
The speech is not supposed to be about where he stuck his pecker.
Somebody slap this kids dad.
He probably has two mommies
Exactly, save it for the backseat of your car.
You mean you don’t shout off the rooftops who you are making whoopee with? Or what kind of privates you prefer?
> The valedictorian at my school did something equally inappropriate. <
I attended a graduation many years ago where the valedictorian, for some reason, thought it would be appropriate wear two big clown shoes. So that’s what he was wearing when stepped up to the stage. (Not kidding.)
Well, the principal was a tough old ex-army paratrooper. He whisked that kid off-stage so fast it was almost comical. (And in that regard, the big clown shoes just added to the hilarity.)
But that was then. Today the principal would have been arrested for an anti-clown-shoe hate crime.
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