Pot. What would you have done?

Vyse
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:12:07 +0000

At my friend’s high school, their valedictorian was an anti social cheater, and the salutatorian (sp?) was a popular dude who didn’t cheat. During the awards chapel (with no prompting from the salut), all his friends started chanting “YOU CANT BEAT THE CHEAT” when the valedictorian was given his award. They all got called to the office and scolded. They all complained that their friend was getting gypped, but the school wouldn’t investigate it.

So at graduation, the salutatorian gets up to do his speech. He gives the speech preceding the valedictorian. It starts off innocent enough, but then he flat out calls out the valedictorian for cheating. He says that honor and integrity are more important than temporarily finishing on top, and that in the end, integrity is noticed and dishonesty catches up with you. He gave a charge to the class to act with integrity when they went to college and later landed a job. The crowd, and especially the kid’s peers, go nuts and give him a standing ovation.

Then the poor valedictorian has to follow that up. He reads his prepared speech with no hiccups, and gets a few claps.

I wish I could have been there. My school’s headmaster attended, and said it was the most intense and awkward ceremony he’d ever been to.