User blog comment:Raidra/The Case for Vetting Graduation Speakers/@comment-25073641-20160523085451/@comment-4849011-20160523124622

Thanks for the congratulations and best of luck to you! I bet that's it. Yeah, she definitely missed the point (which really makes her pathetic because the author really could not have made his point any clearer). The original speech had meaning, so it's sad to have it reduced to some twisted mess with random comments thrown in (Notice there was nothing about sleeping for 20+ hours or eating macaroni & cheese in the original). At one point Mom noted that someone started laughing during her speech. He or she was probably thinking, "Wow, this is bad. How are they letting this bosh happen?" I can only imagine the comments people made on social media after this. Hopefully they used her name, or at least the name of the school, so people will find it during an Internet search.

Oh, I think they'll get what coming to them. I don't think they even have a high position. I didn't want to say this because I'm the daughter of two hard-working teachers and didn't want to give teachers a bad name, but we were told her parents are teachers. Yeah. You have to wonder how they react when their students plagiarize. Well, it'll be hard for them because I'd say they've lost a lot of respect. I guess the school didn't want to make waves, but the waves they'll have to deal with will be a lot bigger. This will come back to bite this cheat and all her enablers.

Ironically, I was salutatorian of my class. However, my speech was all my own since my parents raised me right instead of raising me to be a brat who thinks the world should bow down to me. At the beginning of my speech I addressed what everyone was thinking, saying something to the effect of, "I won't take long because you don't want to hear me; you want to hurry up and graduate." They liked that. Things went well until partway through the ceremony, when people started crowding the stage area and getting rowdy. Luckily I had already gotten my diploma and was quietly off to the side somewhere. That mishap got the school some bad publicity. Calls were made afterward, and I don't remember exactly, but I think someone wrote an editorial about it.