I enjoyed his speech.It was definitely the one he should have given. The perfunctory ‘speech’ written by the Administrators said nothing. And I am really tired of the ‘we did it!’ (From the movie Legally Blond) at the end of so many stupid graduation speeches. I am not surprised that the School administration/principal/dictators wanted a different speech. My son gave one of the student speeches at his high school graduation and the ‘powers that be’ edited his speech. It didn’t make any difference in the impact, so he acquiesced to the change. But why ask a student to give a speech of their own, if you want your (school admin) ‘speech’ given? Just give it yourself and only edit out profanity or inappropriateness in a student’s speech.
I know one who refused to give the speech. So there was no speech.
School was upset, but the young lady stated she would not give a speech written by someone else and pretend it was her own.