Comment #9

MADDOG10 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:48:18 GMT

Beyond a shadow of a doubt....!

Comment #8

rdgrnr — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:07:23 GMT

<br />Her source, "SNOPES" says it was a radio DJ's letter but we don't really know that because SNOPES isn't a real authority on anything. SNOPES is a liberal husband and wife team known for slanting things to fit an agenda at times.<br /><br />But I find that to be neither here nor there because whatever the source, I think we all agree, it is a speech that SHOULD be read to all schools and implemented.

Comment #7

emilyg — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:58:48 GMT

I'm going to leave copies of tis speech everywhere I go.

Comment #6

maximumfun — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:01:40 GMT

Wow - that is an amazing speech! thank you for sharing it!

Comment #5

JAP69 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:41:44 GMT

My applause to that principal.

Comment #4

sully16 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:18:11 GMT

Awesome speech.

Comment #3

emilyg — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:23:12 GMT

Bravo!!!!! We need more people like this principal.

Comment #2

CajunWin4 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:19:07 GMT

Every Principal in the U.S.A needs to give this Exact Speech to All Students !!!! It should be mandatory at least twice a school year read a loud to all Students and Staff ....

Comment #1

MADDOG10 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:00:51 GMT

Now those are words of wisdom and value. I hope to see this again one day..

Original Blog Entry: A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Be Giving

rdgrnr — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:41:59 GMT

This is a speech given to the students in a Colorado High School by their new Principal.

A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give.

By Dennis

Prager.

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your

new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach

young people.

I would like to apprise you of some important changes

coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most

of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against

you, against your teachers and against our country.

First, this school

will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial

makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your

origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors

arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about,

the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your

character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this

school will care about is American.

This is an American public school,

and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish

to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have

to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American

nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its

three central values -- e pluribus Unum, from many, one. And this school will

be guided by America's values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not

authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes

race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in

vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Your clubs will be

based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically

defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy

preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to

think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders

and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak,

carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being

interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means

that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second, I am

uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in

terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as

fluently as possible. The English language has united America's citizens for

over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the

indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one

country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills,

I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully

compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is

deplorable that most Americans only speak English --but if you want classes

taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your

school.

Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything

in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other

things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our

society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school.

These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal

dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated

anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at

athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f-word, you can't speak.

By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications

Commission, plus epithets such as snip , even when used by one black student

to address another black, or bitch, even when addressed by a girl to a

girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be

among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the

degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem

programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the

way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning

it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not

eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and

away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you

about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global

warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to

regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue... There will be no

more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white,

or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any

one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself

inordinately fortunate -- to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please

stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As

many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

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I'm sure the Dems will be along with the ACLU to claim discrimination as usual.

They can't stand not having people divided up into opposing groups and having a permanent underclass of victims.

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