Commencement Speech: Student Rachel Moore
I’d like to say hello and welcome you all to our high school graduation. I know that several people have already done that, but I don’t think repetition makes the words “high school graduation” any less meaningful. Graduation has been on our minds for about 12 years now. There probably isn’t anything we’ve waited as long for or put as much hard work toward. grade or middle school graduation? I remember getting my “diploma.” It was so cool. I also remember that from then on, “graduation” was added to the list of make believe games my younger sister and I played. We used to roll up pieces of printer paper with the word “CONGRADULASHUNS” written in it, like this (Show roll and words) and tie a little ribbon around it and voila! We would switch being the presenter and graduate of course. And we would practice our “graduated” smile. Mine looked something like this (stupid smile). That was probably 12, 13 years ago and I remember thinking that being 18 and graduation was so far away, it seemed like it would never be here. 12 years is forever when you’re 6, but now we sit here and graduation is in about... none minutes! We’re here. Yes. Actually, could you all do something for me, could all try to say yes like that and fist pump with your non-dominant hand? Like this? Its funny isn’t it? It’s funny because it’s so incredibly awkward, and a little uncomfortable. But maybe not as uncomfortable as entering a tight knit community like the one here at Minnetonka as a text book “new kid.”
Some of you know that I’m not a native, some of you don’t, and others are looking at me like “she’s in our grade?” I moved to Minnesota from Kansas in October of my junior year, so I’m relatively new to many of you, leaving you thinking “she can’t talk to us about our entire public school lives, she didn’t even go here!” And you would be right, I can’t talk to you about our entire public school lives together. I can’t talk to you about your childhoods, I can’t make jokes about the elementary school teachers we shared, or grimace at the photos of what we looked like in middle school, although some things are better left unseen. In fact, at first glance, it would be safe to say that I don’t know a single one of you well enough to be up here attempting to be the last bit of formal peer communication you receive, but that is why first glances can often be deceiving. Although I have not grown up with you, I have grown up with you. I think that senior year is when we begin realize that “when I grow up” has become, “in the next 5 years.” We start to become who we want to be as adults and begin to make decisions that will shape the rest of our lives. I didn’t know you as childish eighth graders, confused freshman, angsty sophomores, and for a great many of you, anxious juniors. But I know you now as seniors-adults. I met you as you are now, who you’ve become and not what you were. I got to go to the games and participate in the traditions and rush through the current of everyday life with you as you are right now and it has been an unbelievable experience. Minnetonka students are some of the brightest, most ambitious, dedicated, and talented people I have ever encountered and that is so exciting to me- That there can be so many exceptional people in one room.
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The following is a transcript of the speech made by student Rachel Moore at the 2011 Minnetonka High School Graduation Ceremony. Student speaker Rachel Moore pauses while addressing her fellow graduates and the audience members during the Minnetonka
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MNA Legislative Update June 17, 2011 « Minnesota Nurses
MNA Legislative Update, June 17, 2011
Budget Negotiations
The legislature adjourned on May 23 without passing a budget. The GOP-led House and Senate proposed an all-cuts budget that makes drastic cuts to vital services, will result in job losses in the public and private sectors, and does nothing to make our tax system more fair. Governor Dayton proposed taxing the wealthiest 2% of Minnesotans (a significant compromise from his earlier proposal to tax the top 5%) in addition to smaller cuts to fill the budget gap. Since the end of the session, the Republican leaders have yet to make a significant compromise.
Potential for Government Shutdown
If a budget isn’t agreed upon by June 30, state government will shut down on July 1. State employees, including many MNA members, have already received layoff notices. What is unclear about a shutdown is which parts of state government will be affected, and which will be considered essential and will continue to operate. The Governor has submitted his plan to the courts, and the Attorney General, Lori Swanson, has submitted a different plan. A more detailed description of the legal process around the shutdown is available from the Minnesota Budget Project .
Grassroots Actions
Working Minnesotans, including union members and our allies, have been attending meetings with their legislators, making phonecalls and knocking on doors to push their elected officials to come up with a responsible budget solution that taxes the wealthiest 2% and protects the rest of us from higher property taxes and drastic cuts to services we all depend on like schools, public safety, and health care. These events will continue this month, and into July if necessary. Upcoming events:
Saturday, June 18
As always, you can also use the MNA Grassroots Action Center to contact your elected officials. It’s more important than ever to contact your legislators and ask them to stand with working families.
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