And she's supposed to be a role model?

[babylonsister]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003592977

Newspaper Charges: Schools Chief Plagiarized Speech -- For Honor Society Induction

Published: June 01, 2007 1:40 PM ET

NEW YORK One of the main tenets of the National Honor Society is to develop character in high school students.

But it appears the schools superintendent in Fort Lee may have set a bad example when she gave her induction speech to the Society in her district last week.

The words Joane Calabro chose were almost exactly the same as those in a sample speech on a Web page on how to speak in public.

An anonymous source slipped an amateur video of Calabro's speech to The Record of Bergen County, which reported on the speech similarity in Friday's newspapers.

Early in her minute talk, she tells students, "I believe that what should make you and your parents most proud is not the actual honor itself, but what you had to do to get it." She goes on to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson on the same topic-- exactly like the example posted on About.com by teacher Melissa Kelly.

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[Benhurst]

1. One of my classmates was caught cheating in chemistry and later

that year inducted into the National Honor Society.

I've always considered the organization a farce.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Eh? A superintendent needs a website to write a speech?