A failed attempt at McCensorship followed by McRetaliation

[KurtNYC]

Tennessee - Eagleville {High} School valedictorian Abraham Stoklasa rehearsed his speech without two objectionable lines Friday morning yet reinserted them from memory at that night's graduation, an official said.
...
Before the ceremony, the principal instructed a woman operating the sound system to disconnect the microphone if Stoklasa varied from his speech.

And what was the line that so un-nerved the principal?

"You have given us the minimum required attention and education that is needed to master any station at any McDonald's anywhere."

The play by play: http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250315/1002

And the battle continues. It seems the principal was so upset by her inability to control the valedictorian that she withheld his diploma.

"Schools should encourage freedom of speech even if they have their own opinion against it," said Stoklasa, who plans to pursue a career in music and song writing at Belmont University in Nashville. "Otherwise, we are taught to eat the opinions we are fed the rest of our lives. I'd rather be able to think for myself."

http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050524/NEWS01/505240310/1002

Stoklasa sounds like DU material to me! Perhaps we should send him a personal invite.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Woo Hooo! The Americn Spirit Lives! nt

[rkc3]

2. This is why Democracy and Education made the most dangerous

book list last week.

Can't have peoples thinkin' fer themselfs.

[Bob3]

3. The kid was just speaking the truth.

High Schools don't want thinking for god's sake - they want conformity - social and intellectual conformity - making one a perfect McDonald's employee.

[wtmusic]

4. I think this falls under the heading of

"getting really annoyed at someone saying something not because it's rude or obnoxious but because it's kind of true."

There must be a simpler term for this syndrome...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. No Uncomfortable Truth Syndrome

N U T S

:woohoo:

[Warpy]

9. I'm going to steal that

Consider it a great compliment!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Steal Away!

:D

[dweller]

5. oNe more Child Left Behind...n/t

dp

[MrModerate]

6. I think the next time I hear one of these . . .

anecephalic school administrators complain that a student they're trying to censor is "out of control," I'll puke.

Ideally on the administrator's shoes.

Why is it that so many people who go into educational administration come off as twice as uninformed as their students, and seem as if they'd be unable to hold down the McJobs they're training their students to fill?

Just askin'.

[Dora]

7. how many administrators

are people who tried to teach but couldn't hack being in the classroom?

Just askin'.

[hobbit709]

11. A friend of mine

once told the principal that he was sick and wanted to go home. the principal told him he was faking it. So my friend threw up all over the idiots patent leather shoes. He got to go home.

[B. P. R. D.]

10. Administrators love to control everything

At my high school graduation we weren't allowed to throw our caps in the air with the threat of not getting a diploma