GON
$150 Site Donor 2025
The student with the worst grades should get to give a graduation speech too.
I want to hear both sides.
I want to hear both sides.
Two sides to every story?
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And somewhere in the middle is the truth 
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There's three sides to every "story."
Only with a third person.
LOL. I always viewed it this way, it's his story, my story, and the truth!Only with a third person.
C students rule the world. Just pick someone at random, that way we all have to sit less time at grad.
Good pointLOL. I always viewed it this way, it's his story, my story, and the truth!
This was exactly the way it was in my old profession.LOL. I always viewed it this way, it's his story, my story, and the truth!
That might not be a bad idea. My local high school graduates about 15-20 students per year. I have three kids, a girl and two boys, who graduated from this high school in 2012, 2014 and 2016. My two oldest kids were valedictorians. (Remember, small school here) My youngest kid barely graduated from high school. Matter-of-fact, academic-wise, he was the second from the bottom of his graduating class. He's a smart kid, he just didn't apply at all.
He then went to graduate from college in four years with a dual major, one of them being a business degree. He was in the work force for a few years when his boss pushed him to get his MBA which he got in May of 2024.
Thanks to forensics in high school and 10 years of public speaking in 4H, he would be an excellent speaker at some graduating ceremony.
BTW, he freely admits that he wasted four years of high school and his first two years of college because he goofed off. Because of his goofing off, he got no college scholarships. None. He's paying for it now and would freely admit it in any high school class speech.
As a white middle class male, its darn near impossible to get scholarships anyways. I was 4.0 GPA, 32 ACT score and got less than $1500 total in scholarships...and applied for everything under the sun. Well, it was back in the late 90's anyways ;-)
AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
Exactly right. I witnessed an off leash dog attack another dog a couple of weeks ago that resulted in injury to the attacked dog. The off leash owner refused to take responsibility, said it was just a dog thing. The other owner followed her home then contacted animal services. It was a she said-she said thing until the innocent dog owner said there was a witness. After I talked with the animal services officer he said having a witness changed how they were going to treat the incident and would charge the off leash owner with dog off leash and damage to personal property and pay the $600 emergency vet bill and fines.There's three sides to every "story." LOL. I always viewed it this way, it's his story, my story, and the truth!
"There's three sides to every story" is one of my favorite sayings. That and "Liars can figure, but figures can't lie." Both are spot on and I use them, quite often lately.
A slight alteration to this but also true is that -
" The truth is a three edged sword"
I'm not one of those who is always right. In fact, I like to question my positions and have plenty of self doubt.
Yet there are times when one person is right and the entire world is wrong.
Yet there are times when one person is right and the entire world is wrong.
This post reminds me of two of my favorite sayings.
1- Three people can keep a secret if two are dead.
2- It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Lawyer?
I've sat in court and watched arguments from both sides. Law is the opposite of science. Science tries to remove all bias and as many variables as possible. Lawyers in a courtroom have one job, that's to bias everything they can to their side regardless of the truth.
