Is it appropriate to talk about current issues in a high school commencement speech?
@Cruiser Thanks. The administration of my school seems to think that my speech should just be all about how awesome we are for graduating high school and how we’re going to “spread our wings” and I just really didn’t want to write a speech like that. I wanted to write about something real that I feel passionately about. I asked this question because a little over a week ago, my principal called me into his office to talk about my speech. He asked if I had any idea what I was going to write about yet. I’d already written a draft. I told him that I touched on the oil spill and tried to summarize it for him. He told me that this speech wasn’t my “political platform” and basically implied that he thought I was going to go up there are spew propaganda. Not only that, but he made a point to remind me that he has to approve the speech before I can read it. It made me pretty mad because he didn’t even bother to read the draft I had written, which really isn’t very political. Like @wilma said,
