Interesting graduation story

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

So I've been best friends with my buddy Steven since we were in Kindergarten. He failed first grade, and was held back a year. So, today, I attended his graduation. It was all going fine and dandy until the valedictorian came to the podium to speak.

As you all know, the usual valedictorian speech is something along the lines of "It was fun. Follow your dreams, and you can achieve whatever you want to..." yada yada yada, blah blah blah. This girl wasn't about to give a cliche motivational speech... she gave a straight up sermon. She went off on a 20-minute tangent preaching the Gospel. I'm a Christian, and I'm glad to see her sharing her faith and stuff, but seriously... save it for church. I would've been perfectly fine with her mentioning Jesus. In fact, the first time she did, people stood up and cheered. Maybe going off on a tangent for a minute or two would've been understandable... but this girl preached a sermon. She barely had anything worthy of being called a graduation speech.

The students tried to pull a "Wrap it up" by applauding... and not one, not two, but all three times the girl kept going, despite the collective moans of the audience and graduates. The worst part is... her 'lesson' didn't evem make sense. It's like she got up there and rambled, and made some random analogy to a parachute. I saw where she was going with it, but she never tied it up. To make matters worse, she went to a place I like to call 'Minority High', because whites are very outnumbered by Bosnians (there's a big Bosnian population here in Jax), Indians, Arabs and blacks. Most of the blacks and whites cheered for her... for the first 5 minutes. Everyone else stared at her in disdain.

All in all, I think the probably turned more people off of Christianity than she would've if she had just mentioned Jesus a couple times.

Thoughts?

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[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

ok

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

just one valedictorian? We had 7

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

Completely agree. Most people get turned off because people try to shove religion down their throats.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

I agreed with what she was saying but even I was like "Shut up before people start walking out!"

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

I have to say that I applaude her for speaking her mind, but I must say wrong place for it. Smart girl like that could have easily got her point across somewhere else. I hate when people do that because to me its like they are trying to just show that they are not ashamed of who they are.

Oh well, your buddy graduated, that is the important part.

 

[dkmesa 10+ year member]

how did your buddy fail first grade?

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

 

[TylerBD12 10+ year member]

how did your buddy fail first grade?

seriously...

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

We had 17 valedictorians...

towards the end people booed those who spoke and cheered those who didn't.

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

My class had a bunch of valedictorians, we just didn't have them all talk.

And I think by "fail", he means his parents just held him back for development purposes. That's usually how being held back works that early on.

 

[69420potsmoker 10+ year member]

I failed first grade with strait f's. Then I got mostly a's all the way up through highschool.

 

[hello again 10+ year member]

ok

x2

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Ive been looking for that for the longest time.

 

[TheFiverMan 10+ year member]

how did your buddy fail first grade?

how is that possible?

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