Where were the "moderators"?

lje62
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:39:47 +0000

Wasn’t the speaker talking to a school that is plagued with problems and a heavy drop out rate ? I think that he was trying to get their attention as a way of saying that he grew up in a similar environment and yet rose above it and made a choice to take advantage of opportunities given to him and to make sure his own children did the same.
I felt like he was going off on the students to grab the audience and to pull them in and engage them.
Our high school had a motivational speaker a few years ago ( Chris Herren ) come to speak to the students about drug abuse…he held the audience’s interest and from what my own daughter said, moved many to tears…very moving , but I am not so sure he influenced the students as much as they should have been .
They were polite and respectful though…
I wonder if this rant wasn’t part of his means of garnering interest in his audience