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Speech costs grad: Valedictorian who ripped school denied diploma
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Jun 27, 2004 03:46pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Daily News |
| News Date | Sunday, June 27, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The valedictorian of a Brooklyn high school was escorted out of the building and denied her diploma yesterday because she trashed the school in a scorching graduation speech.
The school says it won't give Tiffany Schley her sheepskin until she says she's sorry - but the 17-year-old is unrepentant.
"I was speaking for my peers," Tiffany told the Daily News. "We've been living with this for four years."
A top student who's going to Smith College on a full scholarship this fall, Schley was brutally honest about the High School of Legal Studies during Thursday's graduation ceremonies in Bushwick.
Among her gripes: The school has had four principals in four years, overcrowded classes, a shortage of textbooks and other basic materials, unqualified teachers, unstable staffing and uncaring administrators who refused to meet with students to discuss the school's problems.
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