The school should have allowed him more time do say it in both languages and not forced him to pick.
I don't agree with his choice to pick Spanish if it was specifically aimed at his parents, becuase he can tell his parents how he feels any time he wants...you do not gather the entire graduating class very often do you?
This 62% number that keeps getting thrown around is bothering me also. The community might be 62% spanish speaking, but the entire community did not attend that high school, nor was the entire community there at the graduation, so you cannot possibly know what percent of people there understood which language.
@singledad
Graduation is a huge part of a teenagers life, and missing out on that speech, which is part of their graduation which they earned the right to hear and understand, seems wrong to me. In my opinion it's not about one group deserving more respect, it's about the fact that those who understood English only were left out due to the school's refusal to accomodate.
I don't agree with his choice to pick Spanish if it was specifically aimed at his parents, becuase he can tell his parents how he feels any time he wants...you do not gather the entire graduating class very often do you?
This 62% number that keeps getting thrown around is bothering me also. The community might be 62% spanish speaking, but the entire community did not attend that high school, nor was the entire community there at the graduation, so you cannot possibly know what percent of people there understood which language.
@singledad
Graduation is a huge part of a teenagers life, and missing out on that speech, which is part of their graduation which they earned the right to hear and understand, seems wrong to me. In my opinion it's not about one group deserving more respect, it's about the fact that those who understood English only were left out due to the school's refusal to accomodate.