High School Graduation Speech

[Faulkner]

Tis the season for high school graduations, and my wife and I attended local high school graduation Friday evening in support of several of our friends who have young folks graduating. The key note speaker was a state senator who I am very acquainted with and respect. He gave a very eloquent speech to the graduating seniors, but one statement in his closing dialog I thought was very relevant to the current crop of young millennials;

"As you sit before us, preparing to walk to the stage and receive your high school diploma, along with your parents, family, and friends, I am very proud of your accomplishments. But one point that I want to make perfectly clear, with this defining moment in your life before you, I want to remind you that what you are being recognized for tonight is actually the easiest part of your life."

I couldn't have agreed with him more.

 

[walkin jack]

Tis the season for high school graduations, and my wife and I attended local high school graduation Friday evening in support of several of our friends who have young folks graduating. The key note speaker was a state senator who am very acquainted with and admire. He gave a very eloquent speech to the graduating seniors, but one statement in his closing dialog I thought was very relevant to the current crop of young millennials;

"As you sit before us, preparing to walk to the stage and receive your high school diploma, along with your parents, family, and friends, I am very proud of your accomplishments. But one point that I want to make perfectly clear, with this defining moment in your life before you, I want to remind you that what you are being recognized for tonight is actually the easiest part of your life."

I couldn't have agreed with him more.

TRUE DAT!!

 

[tekarra]

Profound words indeed.

 

[Warren Sear]

Here, and with a picture...

 

[vytoland]

LIFE = a never ending learning process.....

 

[targetchief]

Once again Faulkner has hit the nail squarely on the head.

 

[DeathGrip]

I half too misagree

Them three years in tenf grade was the hardess

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I half too misagree

Them three years in tenf grade was the hardess

You think that was hard? Senior Class President two years in a row is hard!

 

[shouldazagged]

In some schools these days the ideal commencement address would be "You are not the center of the universe now. Go and sin no more."

 

[jag312]

If anyone thinks high school is hard, wait until you get in college. Real college is not like Animal House.

When I was a Senior in college, I was an intern at a local law enforcement agency. When I was about to graduate, one of the old veterans, a Captain, told me what it was like in the real world. To paraphrase what he said. "Nobody can say that I haven't had to eat manure, but no one can say that I ate manure AND LIKED IT."

 

[John Frederick Bell]

I don't much like Millennials, most of which are idiots but some of whom are fine people. Don't care for self-righteous Boomers, either, though I'll allow I count some among my closest and best-regarded friends...suppose funny things happen when you put away the broad brush as generations are concerned.

High school was a waking nightmare for me. For all the screw-ups, missteps, and questionable judgment since, you couldn't pay me enough to go back.

But we can pretend it was easy, I suppose.

 

[LMWIS]

The popularity contests, the cliques, the endless testing with nothing to do with academics, the backbiting...,

Sometimes I think I never left high school at all...,