In this day and age you would think that a school would trust one of their best students to give a speech that would be respectful to both the school and staff? But to do this, require a copy of the speech before hand to censor is reprehensible act by the school administration.
You can find the complete information here and a few other places also.

http://www.bizpacreview.com...utional-rights-75592


Earl

quote “Student speakers were told that if their speeches deviated from the prior-reviewed material, the microphone would be turned off, regardless of content. When one student’s speech deviated from the prior-reviewed speech, the microphone was turned off, pursuant to District policy and procedure.”

A more accurate thread title would be; Valedictorian’s mic cut off when he deviated from his preapproved speech.

The interesting question would be: Would they have approved a Valedictorian speech about Constitutional rights at this high school graduation? Did anyone ask?

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I think it's a great policy. Some think it's cute to surprise an audience with controversial remarks but that's the wrong setting.

As long as they would have also cut off the mic had he started to speak about something that was controversial BUT that they agreed with. Has to be equal treatment.

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Whade' "Darkwing" Duck
Fieroless (11/18/12)

Since he agreed to the speech policy beforehand, I don't have a problem with the school's actions.
The argument should have been had during the speech approval, and if they wouldn't allow him to say what he wanted, he should have refused to speak and gone public with the reason why.

I applaud the student's intent, but I think he could have found a better way. Still, the media attention to this may have been his intent all along, in which case, he's getting a larger audience than an approved speech would have reached.

quote Originally posted by whadeduck: As long as they would have also cut off the mic had he started to speak about something that was controversial BUT that they agreed with. Has to be equal treatment.

I believe as soon as he deviated from the preapproved script, they cut the mic.
Subject matter probably never entered the mind of the person who had one eye on the script, and one on the switch.

Here is the same headline - "Man shocked to receive ticket for speeding."

High school students aren't real good listeners.

I was thinking if the student was so smart to be the valedictorian, and was going to deviate from the turned in dialog, why wouldn't he bring a megaphone under his graduation gown.

Earl

quote Originally posted by aqua-man: ... you would think that a school would trust one of their best students to give a speech ...

One of their best students ?
I would think that their best student earned the right to say what ever the hell that he wanted to.

quote Originally posted by whadeduck: As long as they would have also cut off the mic had he started to speak about something that was controversial BUT that they agreed with. Has to be equal treatment.

A faculty speaker at my daughter's college graduation gave a Hugo Chavez style lecture.
Wish I'd had a mic switch on that occasion.