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Your Words Define Who You Are
“High school valedictorian denied diploma over graduation speech” By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout “An Oklahoma high school valedictorian who used the word “hell” in her graduation speech in May has yet to receive her diploma. Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Prague High School with a 4.0 grade point average, her father, David Nootbaar, told KFOR-TV. But school administrators told him that Kaitlin would have to submit a written apology in order to get her diploma. “We went to the office and asked for the diploma and the principal said, ‘Your diploma is right here but you’re not getting it. Close the door, we have a problem,’” David Nootbaar…
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A mother is the truest friend we have
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. –Washington Irving All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. -Abraham Lincoln My…