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What the title says, are valedictorian had his speech cut from the graduation dvd for being offensive.
Valedictorian Speech given at Graduation and cut from the grad video:
Family, friends, classmates - thank you all very much for allowing me to accept this prestigious award. It really does mean a lot. And I mean a whole lot. Like this much. Now, I’m not going to lie to you. I didn’t write anything down for this speech. I wanted this to be truthful, coming from right here, the gut. Now you may be going, well Ty Jaros, I can clearly see you reading from that page set in front of you. Yeah, I do appear to be reading, but I’m not. I actually looking at a picture that I drew right before I came up here. It’s a stick figure drawing of me, wearing a burger king crown and riding a dinosaur. See, there’s me…and there’s a dinosaur. And yes, it is colored in. And yes, I brought crayons to my high school graduation. But as you can see, it’s really, really poorly done and shows absolutely no effort whatsoever. In actuality, it’s a pretty good representation of my high school career, except for the dinosaurs. Those aren’t real.
The Marist experience has been a great one and a lot has been expected of us at this amazing college prep school of ours. Our Class been held to the highest standards. We’re meant to have developed our relationship with God, gained personal morals, and taken a look at the ethics of every decision. At this point, we should have been perfectly set up to grow, to learn, to laugh and to love, all while becoming the quintessential Christian leaders of our nation and our world. Not to mention we’re meant to get a fantastic education that will prepare us for college. That’s basically what it says in the mission statement and the reason why our parents send us here. And what has been the result of our experience here and money well spent by our parents? Answer: really, really good sports teams. I mean, dominant. Like so good, we’ve made state appearances in everything. Except water polo and lacrosse. But that’s ok because, since they haven’t won, students just overlook them as fake sports.
You see, it’s appropriate that I begin with sports because of what our class has done. Just look up on that wall at all the banners that we, the Class of 2008, have helped to put up. And that’s not even all of them. There are ten state championships during our time here. Ten. And I’m sorry, they’re not all football and boys basketball as certain people so deeply desire, but we can always dream, right? Regardless, though, these wins show just how awesome our class is. And besides setting records, we’ve made up for 1986 to 1995, the void of victories right above me. What happened there? Does anyone know? Cuz that’s just embarrassing. Shame on you, graduates from that “Dark Era in Marist Education.” We’ve had to fight to make up for your lack of athletic ability. But, don’t worry, we forgive you. Our battles have all been for glory and honor because, when it comes down to it, what’s more glorious or honorable in life than our high school athletic accomplishments? Absolutely nothing. And, thankfully, the school has realized this and heavily emphasized our sports programs for us. That flag up there confirms my claim. Excellence in private education. But since sports have won way more awards than the academics, I’m just going to go ahead and assume that by private education they mean athletics. Excellence in athletics. We’ve met that goal.
But as important as sports are, this is a school and typically, to my knowledge, schools do require some amount of learning in order for us to get to where we are today. And I believe that over the course of our four years here, mostly in our first three, we’ve done our fair share or even more. It might be a stretch, but I like to characterize our class as a group of lazy overachievers. Of course, there are exceptions, but for the most part, we’ve held true to this description. For example, many of us have loaded up on classes, taking at least one honors or AP class for that magical GPA boost and the chance to earn college credit. We have wanted all the best teachers this school has to offer, from Mr. Nuxoll and Mr. Moser to Mr. Ferarri, Mrs. K, and many others. And on top of this we have chosen multiple extracurriculars to participate in, from sports to band to retreat team knowing that we could succeed at all of them.
In the process, though, we realized that all of these things required us to work. And that was something that we were not so in to. It really wasn’t us. So we redefined how we took our classes. Essays were written in the dark of night the morning they were due. Homework assignments were turned in by over half the class with surprisingly similar wording. Teachers hinted at the fact that this is cheating. We called it collaboration. And while sometimes, panic levels are were with all of the work we had to do, stress levels were surprisingly low. We were enjoying our time at Marist and handling school well.
But that was before the war. The war of senior war. This year has been so hard that I believe I could not do it justice without sad violin music. Cue the music Michael. Now, this year many of us decided to take three, four, or even five AP classes, assuming that they’d be easy since everyone says senior year is the easiest. But that was a lie! Whereas we came in as good, not hardworking students, we became burnt out as the year went on. And teachers began to notice. Perhaps the best representation of this comes from Mr. Oldham, who noticed that at the beginning of the year, the mental state he defined as our “APness” was high. And it was. Our APness was so high that we were working hard and fast, pounding through assignments like no other and confident that we could dominate anything that came our way. We came to school each and every day with our heads held high, proud to be on top instead of the bottom. And for a while, we did not falter. But soon, our APness began dropping. We began getting tired of school. We had the stress of college applications to deal with, along with the realization that soon, we’d be moving on, causing us to wonder if there were better things to do. Then, we contracted a disease, senioritis, and this caused our APness to drop completely, leaving only the shriveled remains of what it used to be. We no longer wanted to work hard at Marist, our loving relationship with our school had become a complicated just friends, and we had no clue how we were ever going to finish.
However, times got better. We rose above our issues in school, tackled our problems, surmounted the challenge, beat the odds, hurdled the gaps, and many other phrases implying action to get to where we are today. Because that’s what we do, Class of 2008, we take action. Like if our class was going to have a movie made about it, it would be directed by Michael Bay. But there would be more explosions than actually happened. But this is the point that I’ve been meaning to get to, guys. Nothing about our class has been defined by defeat or failure. We’ve done everything we’ve set out to do, from winning state championships to succeeding in the classroom. Never have we backed down or come up short. We’ve confronted everything head on all of that has combined to get us to this point, the largest measure of our success to date. And now it’s time to move on to bigger and better things, taking that same drive and effort with us, wherever we’re planning to go. So congratulations, guys. We’re finally done. Thank you.
The speech was cut from the video for two reasons. 1 the obvious use of innuendos (APness= penis), and 2 the reason the school failed to mention. The school is very known in are league and local high school leagues for recruiting students to are school, which is against the policy of all high school leagues in Oregon. are schools Principal is also criticized for over emphasizing sports, which is entirely true he spent too much money on sports and gave star athletes of football and mens basketball special treatment while ignoring all other sports for the school. It was a hilarious speech i hope you enjoy as much as the gym full of people at graduation.