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A San Diego valedictorian took the opportunity to shred apart adults at her school in her commencement speech. San Ysidro High School’s graduating senior Nataly Buhr called out her guidance counselor for leaving her to “fend for herself,” the school’s office staff for their “negligence,” and one of her teachers for being “regularly intoxicated.” Ouch. Of course, the crowd went wild.
Unsurprisingly, school officials were not pleased with the stunt.
“We think that the student’s speech was inappropriate and out of line,” Manuel Rubio, a spokesman for the Sweetwater Union High School District, told the San Diego Tribune on Tuesday.
He said he couldn’t comment on specific personnel issues.
The speech Buhr delivered was not the one she submitted for approval before graduation, Rubio added.
“While we definitely welcome the concerns of students and their families regarding any situation at one of our schools, doing so in such a manner without any prior knowledge of this situation by the school, is not the right way of handling this,” he said. “Ultimately this takes away from what should have been a day of celebration for the school and their community.”