OK High School Valedictorian w/ 4.0 GPA denied diploma because she said "Hell"

[DonRedwood]

Is there anyway we can just pack up and give away the south and the midwest?

I hope this girl sues and sues big.

http://kfor.com/2012/08/18/46913/

[Rambis]

1. Fer Fucks Sake! (nm)

[still_one]

52. Thank goodness you didn't say "hell"

[seabeyond]

2. didnt read article, but kids christian school when little, that was the one cuss word the kids

were allowed to say. and not just go are going to hell if you go to public school. but, that is a hell of a thing kids go to hell cause they go to a public school.

[jsr]

3. What the hell

Glad she's telling them to go Cheney themselves.

[SDjack]

4. She's smart. The school will give her the diploma and lots of money.

[Webster Green]

5. And the news site at the link was afraid to use the word hell.

They used h*** instead. I guess they didn't want to offend the puritans.

[DonRedwood]

6. That says a lot, actually

[tularetom]

7. When I clicked on your link I found the following stories referenced on the same page

"Mother accused of allowing uncle to impregnate her daughter"

and

"Elderly man arrested violating pig at school barn"

So you may be right about giving parts of the country away.

[DonRedwood]

15. I wonder if it was the same man....

[bluestateguy]

8. School administrator stupidity strikes again

Stupid bureaucrats.

And yet whenever the budget ax falls, these people always seem to end up still having a job. It's always the teachers who get laid off.

It looks as this young miss is holding her ground and will not be duped into a forced apology. Good for her.

[Major Nikon]

9. It's not even one of the 7 dirty words

[unblock]

10. well i agree. such biblical language has no place in a valedictory address.

[hifiguy]

11. Oklahoma, the buckle of the buybull belt.

Why am I not surprised?

She earned the diploma effective at the posting of the final grades. I hope she and her family sue these fucking hillbilly doucherockets for every dime the school system has and then settle for a public, televised apology from the officials from the superintendent on down, release of her diploma and ten bucks in damages.

[DonRedwood]

16. If it messes up her college entry she could sue BIG and get enough FOR college

especially if it messes up her ability to go to college next month

[aquart]

53. I would say she already has her college acceptance.

She's passed her entry requirements.

[byeya]

54. Oklahoma: The USA's unflushed toilet

[RKP5637]

12. When will the Lemmings wake up to the hellish bullshit provided by some of

these so called schools and join the real world ... and leave behind Taliban High School.

[Rowdyboy]

13. Hopefully what she wins by suing the school board will provide her "spending money" in college....

Since she already has a full scholarship!

[TlalocW]

14. She shouldn't get her diploma because she said, "Hell."

She shouldn't get her diploma because her inspiration came from, "Twilight."

Just kidding of course.

TlalocW

[DonRedwood]

17. Yeah....that was the sad part of it.

[hfojvt]

18. bah, she's lucky she wasn't defenestrated

What's so tough about writing an apology letter?

[obamanut2012]

44. Should you write an apology letter to get a last pay check?

The school no longer has any authority over her.

They are breaking the laugh and she didn't do anything

[Tom Ripley]

19. Oklahoma/ Where the stupidity is as high as an elephant's eye...

[hamsterjill]

20. Betcha if it were a male student who said this instead of a female student

That nothing would have even been said.

I hope she sticks to her guns, hope she becomes very wealthy and sticks it to this school when she has the opportunity to do so.

[JHB]

21. Isn't that Teabagger-land? Aren't they supposed to hate petty bureaucrats there?

But gosh, here we have a local-level administrator making someone jump through hoops just because she annoyed him and it was within his power to do so.

[LeftinOH]

22. Fuck that. n/t

[MineralMan]

23. A brief, pointed letter from a good attorney

should get her diploma released. What a moron that administrator is! This kind of stuff is thoroughly settled law.

Copies to all members of the school board, too.

[Trillo]

33. What about other students that may not have a 4.0 GPA?

Perhaps, like the proverbial iceburg whose upper tip is visible, this incident is only in the media because of the 4.0 GPA, and there are others that have been subject to this administrator's past wrath.

Should every student be assigned an attorney? Or should we instead end the idea that we'll pay you later for work done today?

[MineralMan]

40. Any student who completes the graduation requirements

must be given their diploma. Any attorney can insist on that. It has nothing to do with the GPA, nor did I mention that.

[hifiguy]

43. The diploma was hers as a matter of right

once she satisfied the requirements therefor - IOW after she finished and passed her final examinations and the grades were posted and finalized. These asshats are trying to retroactively deny her the benefit of a thing that is already, legally speaking, hers.

[DonRedwood]

46. Well, usually only the best students get to speak so...not that it is just a 4.0

She is Valedictorian as well and probably a member of honor society, etc etc

So, four years of hard work negated because she said 'hell?"

[treestar]

24. A "local" HS

Sounds like the local public HS? If it's public how can they deny a diploma when a person earned it? Even Christian private academies would be regulated to some degree, too.

[exboyfil]

28. It gets better the school's athletic teams

are known as The Red Devils according to Wikipedia. Ponder that for a moment.

[DonRedwood]

56. ouch.... in 2012?

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

25. Hope she gets it, but that link crashed Safari on my computer

maybe I had too many windows open?

[exboyfil]

26. Harry Truman

“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”

"Socialism only works
in two places:
Heaven where they don't
need it and hell where they already have it."
-Ronald Reagan

War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”
― Philip Henry Sheridan

“You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”
― David Crockett

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
― Blaise Pascal

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Hey, Minnesota is in the Midwest!

We Minnesotans (except for the residents of Michelle Bachmann's district) would resent any attempts to attach us to places like Oklahoma and Texas. We'd rather go with New England and the Pacific states.

[Go Vols]

42. I agree

Oklahoma isn't in the South either.

[DonRedwood]

63. nope, sorry, until you stop sending us bachmann and ryan

it's off you go with the south....

I mean, honestly, I think we've been pretty patient about the whole thing.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

64. Ryan is from WISCONSIN

and surely you have to take Al Franken and Keith Ellison into consideration, as well as the late, lamented Paul Wellstone and Hubert Humphrey.

[jsr]

29. Prague High School - HOME OF THE RED DEVILS

http://prague.k12.ok.us/index.php?pageID=1078

[yardwork]

57. You can't make this up.

[Gormy Cuss]

58. At least the mascot is the Devil

and not an Indian like this school:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/19/mascot-removal-rejected-by-indian-river-school-board-124471

It's Oklahoma though and I wonder if it used to be an Indian "mascot" for Prague HS too.

[DonRedwood]

60. painful to look at!

[pinboy3niner]

30. Lucky CaliforniaPeggy didn't live there. She'd STILL be in remedial classes.

[DonRedwood]

62. LOL!!

[truebrit71]

31. Wow, is that ever fucking stupid...

....hope the parents sue the school back to the 18th century...

[benld74]

32. The other stories on the link are below

Most Viewed
Valedictorian fights for diploma
Mother accused of allowing uncle to impregnate her daughter
GRAPHIC - Elderly man arrested violating pig at school barn

[gkhouston]

35. They've got a graphic of an elderly man violating a pig?

Some papers will go to any lengths to avoid printing editorial cartoons.

[hughee99]

34. Administrative stupidity knows no regional boundries. n/t

[The Straight Story]

36. Well that word is in the bible, therefore she was being religious

And we know how evil that is. Can you imagine the pain and suffering other kids would have went through if she said 'Jesus' in some fashion "And I thought, Jesus! When will these tests end?" - BAM instant law suit
by all the other kids and parents, fainting, etc.

If a word exist in the bible it should be allowed to be spoken allowed within 1000' of a school, let alone a graduation.

[obamanut2012]

37. This is a public high school, not a private one

NOT way they can do this. I don't know if a private one could, either.

[obamanut2012]

38. The school's mascot is the "Red Devils"

[Enigmatis]

39. Give away the Midwest?

7 out of the 12 Midwestern states voted for Obama in 2008 with 78% of the Midwest's electoral votes. Even in 2004, Kerry received 47% of the Midwest's electoral votes. There are plenty of progressives in Midwestern states.

[undeterred]

49. Welcome to DU!

from a midwestern progressive

[mfcorey1]

41. From the blog:

Doug11 minutes ago
Hell yeah, here is Superintendent Martin's email [e-mail].
Now let him know just what the hell you think about his decision.
Reply

[Wednesdays]

45. Oh, Prague...where there's been a rash of earthquakes since last fall

Maybe it rattled their brains or something. Then again, maybe not...a lot of folks around here are like that already.

I see a lot of people on this thread calling "sue 'em," but around this part of the country, it's not necessarily that easy. There's no guarantee a judge will find for the student in this case (yes, rural OK is that far into the Kool-aid), and that doesn't even begin to address the intimidation issue (in such an area, everybody you know knows WHO you are and what you're doing at all times).

Then there's the media here, which has a huge impact on public opinion. I know someone who works for a large company that had a falling-out with a high-profile personality, and even though the person was in the wrong, the jury faulted the defendants...because the local media made the person out to be a victim. Don't be mislead by the initial objectivity of the first article: if the student sues, the media will turn against the whole family in a flash...as it is, the student may be in deep shit for allowing the matter to go public.

Remember, this is in a county that will likely go 95% for rMoney-Ruin in November.

[KamaAina]

47. This is a public school?!

[KamaAina]

48. I guess she got an A in geography

Hell is a town in Michigan, fer cryin' out loud.

[D23MIURG23]

50. x2 on the suing thing. I hope whoever made this call gets fired and ends up on the street. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

51. you can give away the south and midwest if you wish. That does not include oklahoma

Oklahoma is where the southwest begins.

[Alduin]

55. What the hell is wrong with that school?

So she said "hell." Big fucking deal.

I hope she sues the hell out of that school.

[rdking647]

59. she should write a letter to the school board

saying Go to hell
(either that or fuck you)

[cash__whatiwant]

61. is this real life?