Valedictorian Thanks ‘Alcoholic Teacher’ And Negligent Counselor For Teaching To ‘Fend For Herself’

Via ZeroHedge

A California valedictorian went off script during her commencement address, slamming an alcoholic teacher who was ‘escorted out of school’ and a guidance counselor who she thanked for ‘letting me fend for myself’ due to being ‘always unavailable to my parents and I despite appointments.’

San Ysidro High School senior Nataly Buhr opened her June 6 speech in typical fashion – thanking her parents for their “endless love,” acknowledging the memories shared with her friends, and mentioning a handful of teachers for being ‘invested in the students.’

Then, Buhr went scorched earth.

Buhr began by unloading on her counselor, to whom she said: “Thanks for teaching me to fend for myself: You were always unavailable to my parents and I, despite appointments. … You expressed to me your joy in knowing that one of your students was valedictorian, when you had absolutely no role in my achievements.

She then slammed the office staff, saying “Thank you for teaching me how to be resourceful. Your negligence to inform me of several scholarships until the day before they were due potentially caused me to miss out on thousands of dollars. When applying for a work permit, you repeatedly turned me away, despite confirming with my employer and my parents that all of my paperwork was filled out correctly. I’ve had to escalate issues with staff to an assistant principal various times to reach any sort of solution.”

And finally – “To the teacher that was regularly intoxicated during class this year, thank you for using yourself to teach these students about the dangers of alcoholism. Being escorted out of school left a lasting impression,” said Buhr, receiving applause from the audience.

“I hope that future students and staff learn from these examples,” she said in conclusion.

The school is pissed

Following Buhr’s speech, Sweetwater Union High School District spokesman Manuel Rubio said that the valedictorian’s went off script from her approved remarks, telling the San Diego Union Tribune “We think that the student’s speech was inappropriate and out of line,” adding “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. Ultimately this takes away from what should have been a day of celebration for the school and their community.”

Her mother Monica Serratos said in a Facebook post that she couldn’t be more proud of her daughter.

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StackingStock
StackingStock

Scorched earth is sometimes the best way to go.

Carry on and arm up. …

Joe
Joe

But she gets it. Maybe.

No one is coming to save your ass.

Best lesson I ever learned.

EL Fenix
EL Fenix

“always unavailable to my parents and I despite appointments” – Valedictorian

Where is MC to grieve about this grammatical error? I hope Maggie didn’t say something like that in her valediction.
I had forgotten how well I know Maggie just from her recollections published on TBP. Damn, is there anything that gal hasn’t accomplished?

M G
M G

Actually, I have my speech I gave saved for posterity. Haha… It was ONE PARAGRAPH.

The Bus to take us on our senior trip to Florida was running. (It wasn’t running, but it was OUT there waiting for the pomp and circumstance to end.)

That reminds me… it was the first graduation since I was 12 that I wasn’t tasked to play the marching music for graduation. Life in a small town has the good, bad and ugly just like wherever you are standing.

Ta Ta for a while… am making a trip to see my father’s grave in the a.m. Then, I’m supposed to rake hay for a while. They are getting 5 round bales to the acre off the land and I don’t really know if that is good or bad but the old guys who are cutting our field seem very happy about it.

Road Guards OUT!

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

M G,

I read that at a recent hay bale auction a single square bale of hay went for $65.

$65 hay bales a sign of the times

TS

At first I thought ‘ big deal’, but wow, that was for a small bale. That’s the usual price, at least around here, for a 1200 lb square bale.

M G
M G

I think that’s more like it… still, we have about 150 to 200 of those sitting out here. Last time they cut round bales they got less than 50, which was hardly worth their time and effort that cutting last spring. The fall was a bit better (cutting it makes it grow better, with fewer weeds.) But, in April, they brought in a spreader for the nitrogen, potash and a bit of lime. And, Wha Lah!

I can’t find my camera and that’s probably good. I’m sick of looking through the viewfinder.

And, at a screen. Ta Ta.

M G
M G

Well, after I got back from visiting with my mother at my father’s (and grandfather’s and uncle’s and other uncle’s and… ) graves today, I took a movie of my husband getting On The Job Hay Raking Training from our 80-year-old farm hand (his brother is in Branson this weekend).

I’ll put it up if I can upload it “free” to vimeo. I lose track of the rules there for “free” hosting of videos. Photobucket discovered I had managed to go over my limit and now expects me to pay monthly to use my photos. I’m not gonna.

These big round bales go for a good hundred to a “buck-fiddy” as they say… Our hay seems really lush this year because, as I said… that field has just had cattle or horses grazing on it off and on for 30 years or more, with the owner cutting the fields occasionally.

It was a productive day.

The video of the tractor ride shows all the hay bales all over and how gorgeous it looks. The neighbor’s kid (18 year old) came over with his “boss” to give us a bid on insulating the barn. He said he’d NEVER seen this place so gorgeous.

Well, duh and Howdy!

tango uniform
tango uniform

Those green plastic extensions for Road Guards…ah, those were the days. Five round bales per acre sounds exemplary!

TS

I get 2 to 2 1/2 tons to the acre on run-off irrigated native grass meadows. A pivot will get about 4 – 5 tons/acre of alfalfa. Round bales are around 🙂 a half ton. So 5 bales/acre is a good year, for me.

Mary Christine

It’s really your job, EC. I just fill in when I think you missed something.

Eclectic Chihuahua
Eclectic Chihuahua

I guess I have no road guards of my own, I’ll have to secure the intersection myself.

If there are more than 4 troops walking together, somebody better start calling cadence – Sgt Pangloss

Eclectic Chihuahua
Eclectic Chihuahua

It’s an inside joke, only Maggie would appreciate it.

M G
M G

I get it. Of course I do.

There was this one gal named, and I KID YOU NOT… Felicia Flowers. How do I remember her name? BECAUSE I was her squad leader and she was a complete oddball. She did not get it that you do not fold your underwear as if you were actually going to WEAR them… she thought a nice stack of T-shirts was fine. EVERY single inspection.

I would go help her get her locker ready early Saturday morning (remember that they had to inspect your locker before you could leave the barracks on Saturday?) Well, by the time the TI came in for inspect she would have changed shirts and sat on her bed. She couldn’t march, so when we had to march anywhere in front of people, she got put on Door Guard duty.

She was in my dorm at Keesler before I was “red rope” and just a lowly “yellow” in charge of a floor. She had a bachelors degree in something but hadn’t been able to get a job.

The CC of the student squadrons found out and she went to OTS. True story. She couldn’t fold socks and she became an officer.

Hollywood Rob
Redrum
Redrum

You really are rather dense, aren’t you?

M G
M G

I mentioned you to my mother. She’s a die hard Baptist… she be praying. See? I offer prayers, then foist the commitment onto someone I know who will do it… like passing that NJ dude off to the lunatic bead counters in Maryland. Now, I’ve dumped a few others onto my elderly mother.

I’m the Tom Sawyer of prayer support whitewashing.

How are things?

Dr. Death
Dr. Death

That one is impressive M G., if it refers to Mark Twain.

You mentioned you are a Missouri gal, didn’t you?

I’ve gotten intrigued with this place, having spent a bit of time in purgatory and recently been let loose.

So, is that a reference to Mr. Clemens or is it a slang term you use regularly?

(Oh, and it’s not just the email addy, young lady. There’s another element to it that occurs outside the network. Unseen. and unheard……)

Give it some time outside with the crickets and hear them chirping the Truth:Eureka

Redrum
Redrum

The silence, sometimes, is the truth.

Ghost

What in the world is going on here?

Do I need to get my boots out again?

I own the copyright on my own photos and this one ARE one of my own and don’t belong to anyone else’s estate, Mister. You go sit down … smiling.

(Damage control does not mean encouragement.)

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Ghost

This one, juxtaposed with mother and I at the grave. The man taught this gal well.

In many ways… them sneaky old POW thieves.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

This poor girl is in for a lifetime of disappointment. She seems to think that speaking the truth will cause the people in charge to fix the problems she identifies.

No, my dear. You keep telling the truth and you will be whacked over the head time and time again and nothing will ever change. A much better approach is to lay low and wait for opportunities to expose the psychopaths anonymously. Just never do this to the #1 psychopath called Hillary or you will end up dead.

That’s better advise than any guidance councilor can ever give you.

grace country pastor

“You keep telling the truth and you will be whacked over the head time and time again and nothing will ever change.”

It is what it is.

2 Corinthians 13:8 KJB… “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”

Steven
Steven

Some of us just get used to being whacked and do it anyway. Good job girl!

old white guy
old white guy

I dislike that saying “it is what it is”, often times it is what you make it.

grace country pastor

That’s more than reasonable, old white guy!

Dr. Death
Dr. Death

One of the First Fruits, isn’t it?

Do you yourself have a church family/church home? I sense “fellowship” in you.

grace country pastor

I am the church. If you’re saved, you are the church.

http://www.GraceCountryBibleChurch.com

To channel HR… what have you done?

Fellowship is what it’s all about… being fellows on the same sinking ship.

Ham Roid
Ham Roid

Best just to give up huh? Kinda’ like being trapped in Portland.

Reading about this girl’s speech was the most encouraging part of my day.

Anonymous
Anonymous

There is truth in this statement, like it or no. The nail that sticks up, is hammered down

Anonymous
Anonymous

This should be happening at every school! This should be happening on every news channel. We as a society need to get rid of political correctness and constantly broadcast how every aspect of government, corporate America, medicine, public services, education, and religion are full of hipocracy. Are leaders are not being held accountable any more because of fear of retribution. TIME TO START THE CHANGE!!!!

EL Fenix
EL Fenix

Our

El Kabong
El Kabong

Hour

EL Fenix
EL Fenix

I was correcting this-> Are leaders….

Frank
Frank

To Are is human????

Epileptic Chihuahua
Epileptic Chihuahua

To aarrggghh is pirate.

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)

Shiver Me Timbers!
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Robert (QSLV)

RiNS

Gen Z in action against inaction

TC
TC

They aren’t called Generation Zyklon for nothing.

Scott halloween
Scott halloween

Complain all you want into this paper bag. Otherwise shut up.

gatsby1219
gatsby1219

@agirl

Steve C
Steve C

That’s hilarious. It reminded me of a scene from the 1999 movie “Election”.

In this scene, a girl named Tammy has been dragged into running for the office of class president along with the typical wannabe candidates that she despises as snobs and ass-kissers.

Here is the speech she gave to a horrified school staff.

“Who cares about this stupid election? We all know it doesn’t matter who gets elected president of Carver. Do you really think it’s going to change anything around here; make one single person smarter, or happier, or nicer?

The only person it does matter to is the one who gets elected. The same pathetic charade happens every year, and everyone makes the same pathetic promises just so they can put it on their transcripts to get into college.

So vote for me, because I don’t even want to go to college, and I don’t care, and as president, I won’t do anything. The only promise I will make is that if elected I will immediately dismantle the student government, so that none of us will ever have to sit through one of these stupid assemblies again!

(Students applaud and cheer)

Or don’t vote for me . . . who cares? Don’t vote at all!

(standing ovation)

Horrified school administrators immediately run to their offices and remove Tammy’s name from the ballot.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

She sounds quite libertarian….and yet libertarians rarely get that kind of applause, while pointing out basically the same things about corrupt government and politicians.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

The school spokesperson is full of shit. “Just paper over all the problems and put on a happy face” doesn’t cut it Jack! Good on you Nataly. You have the courage of your convictions and I predict you’ll go far!

Neuday
Neuday

I predict massive disillusionment, a burgeoning problem with alcohol, and increasing bitterness, culminating in reading TBP.

EL Fenix
EL Fenix

culminating in shit-flinging on TBP.
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niebo
niebo

AGREE

“While we definitely welcome the concerns of students and their families regarding any situation at one of our schools. . . .”

She ALREADY GRADUATED YOU SHITSACK! It’s TOO LATE for YOU TO CARE.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

Get her and Soph together. Start a new world.

Anonymous
Anonymous

welcome to the real world sugar tits. no one gives a fuck about you, except you. at least she’s (hopefully) learned this life lesson early. i know “adults” in their 40’s-50’s who still haven’t, and never will.

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

Oh, fuuuuuuuuuck. That told me the shit is stacked way overhead.

A nice acknowledgement to her parents, and the teachers who helped her. Then, blithe acceptance from her fellow students of her ‘off-script’ remarks as she excoriated her counselor, and then launched an attack at the buffaloes in the main office.

Only when the $’s hit home – “you made me miss out on scholarships”, did “WTF?” looks from students appear (all girls) turning their head one way, then the other, looking to see if the diatribe was registering on anybody else’s Richter Scale, hiding their grins behind hands.

Nobody cheered until she lambasted a chronically drunk teacher. I would be if I were one.

The only girl who stood to applaud quickly sat down when she realized she was alone.

I guess we all are.

Noobie
Noobie

Beyond awesome. Maybe, just maybe we’ve got a chance.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

She would have gone a lot farther OUTSIDE of the government monopoly system…but any move in the direction of individuality is a great one…especially to set an example to the room full of sheep.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Just sat through a two-hour snooze fest in Rock Hill, SC for the son of a friend graduating high school. One of the student speakers actually had the nerve to say that they had all been taught “critical thinking.” I almost lost it on that ridiculous comment. The principal spent most of his speech introducing about 40 other principals (several from local ELEMENTARY schools), assistant principals, School superintendent Chalmers (hat tip to the Simpsons), and other useless “dignitaries” each by name, while having all the school’s teachers stand and sit en masse. What a joke. The rest of his speech was praise for all the sports, drama, music, chorale, and other awards etc. the school has amassed the previous school year. The actual stuff that focused on the graduates lasted about 20 minutes and involved the high speed reading of all the names with not so much as a peep allowed from the audience (armed police standing with guns at the ready all around the area to enforce the rules. Of course nobody went “off script,” but at least the last kid (who, because his last name begins with “Z” has ALWAYS been last his whole life, danced around on stage after they announced his name – knowing that everyone was desperately waiting for it all to be over. The rare highlight of the ceremony.

I would weep for our future, but why waist the water at this point.

TS

Cry enough and you’ll be able to ‘waist’ the water. 🙂

Grog
Grog

Waisted days and waisted nights.
Freddy Fender

Epileptic Chihuahua
Epileptic Chihuahua

We knew who it was, dude. If your from Texas which is half the land mass of the USA, you know Freddy Fender and the Texas Tornadoes.

There’s two types of Americans, Texans and queers.

TS

Only thing outta Texas is steers and queers, and I doubt you have any horns. Well, maybe cornuto, but that’s another story, oh shivery canine.

Eclectic Chihuahua
Eclectic Chihuahua

Where is the love in that comment, Texas Steer?

TS

Nuthin’ but love, Brother.
On the other hand, I’ve had a few run-ins with some Tex women – a certain redhead in Fort Worth comes to mind – that could put the bull back into a steer and straighten out what went sideways.
So it most definitely is not for lack of the proper enticement.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Damn Texas women think they all thatcomment image

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
Mary Christine

That was an interesting anecdote, Mr Liberty. And to you two spelling nazis, TS and Grog, get loosed, or losted or just leave it to EC to correct everyone’s spelling. One grammar nazi is enough.

TS

I rather considered it more on the level of ‘pun’, than grammaricide.
It was there, I had to use it.

TS

Down vote, down vote, whatcha gonna do, when the downvote comes for you.

Thank you for actually paying attention to me, it makes it all worth while. As an attention-junkie, you have no idea how gratifying that is.

Blessed be the downvoters for they shall… well, downvote, I guess. Too bad you’re such a piker. You should start a TS down-voting society and REALLY show me, with such a torrent of thumbs-down that I will scurry for the obscurity of sniveling anonymity. Such as you do. See, I’m actually seeking to emulate YOU, my down-voting nemesis. You should be proud. Please help me in this quest; life is not worth living unless I can crest the high-water mark of down-ness. I figure 30 or 40 would be attainable. Why, I might even rack up such a score of the sacred vote of dismissal that Admin will be forced to task TMWNM to forever etch this accomplishment in the annals of TBP ignominy.

TS

What? No responses from ANYBODY?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4iZoZq3Zo0&w=795&h=332%5D

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

quit yore snivlin’

TS

LOL

Eclectic Chihuahua
Eclectic Chihuahua

Nobody appreciates our dedication, Tender Scout. If it wasn’t for spelling and grammar nazis, the joint would devolve into a queer orgy. Seriously, if you loose the reins one iota, morals drop to ghetto level in a hurry.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

A word I rarely use – either version. Good catch. Not that I did, but that is the problem with relying on spell check, etc. I spelled the wrong word perfectly well.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte

.

“I don’t always agree with annoying American teen-age girls BUT when I do I always say “You GO girl!”

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Llpoh
Llpoh

This kid’s parents did a shit job if she was surprised the system did not help her.

Rule 1 that parents need to teach their kids: take responsibility for yourself.

Any other rules are of secondary importance.

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

Her speech made evident her parent’s role in teaching her to take responsibility for herself, and stand up for herself. They did a splendid job. I heard no evidence in her words or tone that indicated she was surprised; she relished dishing out her verbal beating. In my youth, not one Valedictorian spoke like that at their graduation; not one criticism. We weren’t ‘allowed’ to ‘talk back’.

Her parent’s did an amazing job of teaching their daughter to think critically, think for herself, and to speak bravely. She spoke truth to power, and that’s a rare thing. She sure as hell didn’t learn that from her teachers, her cowardly classmates, media, or literature. Who ELSE could have had such a marvelous in her young life? They deserve the highest praise.

The First Rule in our ‘grooming’ system, from daycare onward, is that everybody deserves an equal outcome; Universal Basic Sustenance is a birthright. They hold our kids hostage with the idea that everyone deserves a passing grade. She gave an “A” to the few who earned it, and flunked the rest of the school. They were all looking at each other instead of her.

When I grew up in a military family (and things weren’t so different in civilian life) ANY parent or teacher could yank your ear if you got out of line. A teacher slapped my face in 2nd grade and I didn’t say a word. It was the only time my mother intervened after an adult disciplined me, right or wrong. She escorted me into class a half-hour after it started the next morning and told the evil Ms. Chase, very calmly through grit teeth, “You EVER touch my son again, I’ll claw your eyes out.”

We were immediately sent to the playground where I was a hero for an hour, and I had empty chairs around me when we returned to class..

Llpoh
Llpoh

She said “Thanks for teaching me to fend for myself: You were always unavailable to my parents”

So, seems her parents did not teach her. Comprehension seems to not be your strong suit.

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

You like being a shit-stained dickweed, yes?

We see how you put your ‘strong suit’ of comprehension to use by making things shitty where they were stain-free before your arrival.

You implied that her counselor taught her more with her absence than her parents did with their always reliable support.

You did this by omitting her opening statement and truncating the beginning and ending of another sentence to reframe her intent into meanings she never meant. In full:

“To my counselor, thanks for teaching me to fend for myself, you were always unavailable to my parents and I, despite appointments. Only in these Last few weeks… did you begin making your appearance.”

She started her Valedictorian Speech by acknowledging her parents as the source of her strength and idealism. You shit on her parents and her gratitude because you are a shitbird.

“I’d like to give recognition to those who have greatly influenced me during the past four years. To my mother and father, you are the most hardworking and caring people that I know, especially in this past year, with all the craziness of applying to colleges and coming closer to adulthood, you have been wonderful mentors and role models. Thank you for your endless love and guidance.”

She didn’t thank her counselor, she shit on her. You pretending to be a counselor here deserves the same.

TampaRed
TampaRed

why are you guys cheering a smart ass punk kid?

Eclectic Chihuahua
Eclectic Chihuahua

It’s the knee jerks who cheer anything anybody puts up. As long as it has a conservative cachet to it. You could post a turd and as long as you added the flag to it the knee jerks would stand up and salute.

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

It’s jerks who disparage courage, because they have none.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Do you have courage, DDung?

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

I look in the mirror to see what’s missing, not what’s there.

James

Fucking school acts like it ruined the day for the students. It actually made their day.

tango uniform
tango uniform

Fighting off the “coalition for inanition” that will suck you into the vortex of swirling stupidity. Think: DMV and USPS.

Eclectic Chihuahua
Eclectic Chihuahua

I’ve been there, Tit Supp

Llpoh
Llpoh

Electric chihuahua suits you better.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)
old white guy
old white guy

I have observed that there never seems to be a right way or a correct time to address issues with those in power.

Wanda Sherratt
Wanda Sherratt

She should consider herself lucky she didn’t graduate from Melonville Pre-Collegiate Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnruq7hztzk

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