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Canadian prinicpal apologizes after high school valedictorian makes unauthorized comment praising Gazans
2025-06-18
Of course they start with the bullshit land acknowledgement before slipping in the antisemitic slur.
[CTVnews] The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board says commencement ceremonies are not an “appropriate forum” for discussions on issues that impact the community, after the valedictorian made a pro-Palestinian remark in her speech at Bell High School.

The principal of the high school in Ottawa’s west end apologized to parents and guardians for the “unexpected and unapproved comments” made during the graduation ceremony last Thursday.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims says the valedictorian called for peace for the people of Gaza during her speech.

A video of the graduation speech posted on Instagram shows the valedictorian said after a land acknowledgment, "as a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza."

In a letter to parents, Bell High School principal Jane Conrod said the content of the speech, ”which touched on deeply sensitive global events, was not part of the pre-approved speech.”

“I am writing to acknowledge and express my deepest apologies for the unexpected and unapproved comments made during the valedictorian speech at last night’s commencement ceremony,” Conrod said.
The correct response, upon hearing unacceptable, unapproved words, is to stop the speech and walk the speaker out of the room to a controlled, supervised location until a parent or guardian can take the child home, stripped of diploma and honours, while the principal makes an announcement to the graduates and audience explaining exactly that before continuing the ceremony. To let the graduate complete the speech unimpeded connotes official approval. Failing that, the correct response for those on the podium and in the audience is to rise and walk out, depriving the speaker of an audience. That’s exactly what the Zionist students and families at MIT’s graduation did recently when their valedictorian pulled the same unclever stunt.
Some Bell High School students held a walkout Monday afternoon in support of the speech.

A spokesperson for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board tells CTV News Ottawa no students were suspended in relation to the graduation speech at Bell High School.
Again, refusal to punish indicates official approval, no matter what apology was written. Cowardly hypocrites, all.


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