Michigan school officials pull plug on(class President's)graduation speech

[Champ]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — School officials pulled the plug on a senior class president’s commencement speech shortly after he referred to his high school as a prison.

They also refused to give Nicholas Noel his diploma during his speech May 19 to fellow graduates of Grand Rapids Union High School. The school said he will receive it later.

As 1,000 people watched the ceremony held at Grand Rapids Community College’s Ford Fieldhouse, the power to Noel’s microphone was cut off immediately after he made the remark, four sentences into his speech.

Noel, who plans to attend Grand Valley State University in the fall, said he described the high school as “the Union High prison system” because students were expected to act alike. The message of his speech was that high school paints for students “a picture of life that is incomplete,” he said.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=13388

[trof]

1. BY GOD WE'RE IN CHARGE

AND WE CAN DO ANYTHING WE WANT AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT!
great

[Champ]

5. I agree with him

I only 1 year out of high school and it was ran more like a prison then a school.

[dorktv]

2. Did not "Weird Al" do something similar about global warming or am I

thinking of someone else?

[Champ]

4. I have no idea...n/t

[proud patriot]

3. by cutting off his michrophone

they proved his point.

[Champ]

6. Exactly right

[UrbScotty]

12. Amen to that. (nt)

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Grand Rapids is Bush Country

Where Gerald Ford is from.

[bluestateguy]

8. School Administrators are not the sharpest people

A student in Georgia suspended for being beat up and fighting back.

Students in Florida arrested for applauding during their graduation.

School administrators are just not all that sharp.

[HEyHEY]

9. Disgusting

Who's running that place? Dean Wormer?

[mistertrickster]

10. And by their actions, they PROVED HIM RIGHT--way to go, dimwits

Oops, ProudPatriot beat me to it . . . sorry for the echo

[7th_Sephiroth]

11. its worse in new mexico

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