Boston Teacher Destroys His Students In Graduation Speech

Daily Mail – A straight-talking Boston teacher gave his students a reality check during their graduation, using his address to tell them they were ‘not special’. In a rant targeting modern American parenting, Wellesley High teacher David McCullough Jr reminded the ‘pampered, cosseted and doted upon’ seniors that they are just another person on a planet with a population of 6.8billion – and therefore utterly insignificant. ‘Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble wrapped… nudged, cajoled, wheedled .. feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie,’ he told the teenagers in the speech, published on BostonHerald.com. ‘But do not get the idea you’re anything special. Because you’re not. ‘Contrary to what your under-nine soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh-grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia… you’re nothing special.’ Mr McCullough told the graduates that a whopping 3.2million seniors were in the process of graduating from more than 37,000 high schools across the United States. ‘That’s 37,000 valedictorians, 37,000 class presidents, 92,000 harmonizing altos, 340,000 swaggering jocks, 2,185,967 pairs of Uggs,’ he said. ‘But why limit ourselves to high school? After all, you’re leaving it. So think about this: even if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you.’
Bravo! Encore! I’m sure all the parents in the audience loved this one huh? Might as well have just been like “Your parents fucking suck. Totally fucked up raising you. I did what I could as a teacher to try and make you guys not be assholes but it was too late. You guys are already pricks. That motherfucker Barney didn’t help either.”
As much as I love this guy and his speech he should undoubtedly be fired. Not because of anything he said. That shit was all spot on. But if you don’t think this dude is one more school year away from going postal and shooting up this school, you are outside of your mind. This dude is one parent-teacher conference away from just snapping and going on a violent rampage. He’s gonna show up to school on the first day of class in September and someone is gonna be parked in his parking spot and its gonna be a goddam bloodbath. And everyone is gonna be like “He seemed like a nice enough guy. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. Although there was that one time he stood up in front of thousands of people and proclaimed he hated all of the students he teaches. I guess that was a red flag.”
PS – 200% chance this dude is a Stoolie. I’m surprised he didnt drop “pussification” somewhere in there

This guy is a goddamn hero.
When i read the headline i thought “oh here’s another school administrator acting like a dickhead” But after reading what he said, this guy fuking rules. Slap those bougie fucks with the right hand of reality.
That’s 37,000 valedictorians, 37,000 class presidents, 92,000 harmonizing altos, 340,000 swaggering jocks, 2,185,967 pairs of Uggs,’
But only 26, fat, lazy eyed Bloggers
Didn’t Brad Pitt use this speech in Fight Club?
This guy is spot on. Don’t make up reasons to hate on him just because he’s from Boston.
Guy’s speech was an A+ as was the blog
The Hard Line….straight from the Polo Fields of Swellelsey!
A+ blog A- teacher
Coulda been A+ if he taught them all enough to make this speech unnecessary.
otwisted stop being bitter about the fact that you grew up in a broken home and are now plagued with a host of mental and social issues. try to overcome your situation and open a fucking book for once you miserable asshole
“You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
Well, he thought in Wellesley, land full of yapping yenta moms and pussified douchebags dads who let their wives steamroll over them. This shit doesn’t apply to Brockton High School, or Boston Latin School (kids at Boston Latin are actually expected to work hard).
Either way, well done. I work in a office, and the college recruits we have are the whiniest pieces of shit we got.
This speech is taken COMPLETELY out of context. The entire point of the speech was to encourage kids to go out and be special. He is also the most loved and respected teacher at the school. His speech has been considered one of the best graduation speeches in a long time. The speech in its entirety was brilliant, entertaining and inspiring
Next time you write a blog do your fucking research.
This speech is taken COMPLETELY out of context. The entire point of the speech was to encourage kids to go out and be special. He is also the most loved and respected teacher at the school. His speech has been considered one of the best graduation speeches in a long time. The speech in its entirety was brilliant, entertaining and inspiring
Next time you write a blog do your fucking research.
This speech is taken COMPLETELY out of context. The entire point of the speech was to encourage kids to go out and be special. He is also the most loved and respected teacher at the school. His speech has been considered one of the best graduation speeches in a long time. The speech in its entirety was brilliant, entertaining and inspiring
Next time you write a blog do your damn research.
This speech is taken COMPLETELY out of context. The entire point of the speech was to encourage kids to go out and be special. He is also the most loved and respected teacher at the school. His speech has been considered one of the best graduation speeches in a long time. The speech in its entirety was brilliant, entertaining and inspiring
Next time you write a blog do your damn research.
ok28288 is right. Mr. McCullough is the most brilliant teacher I’ve ever had, and the speech did not criticize the lifestyles of the students in any way (a fact which you would know, if you actually read the entire fucking speech). After all, he is the son of very rich and successful author. Either way, he is in no way the type of person who would blow a nutty and go on a fucking rampage. He is one of the most well grounded, understanding, and empathetic people I know. If he was fired, which he won’t be, it would be a travesty. So fuck off.
KFC please shut the fuck up. seriously. even based on your headline i knew you had no knowledge of this speech or this teacher. I had this teacher and I know you were trying to be funny (and failed miserably) but there is literally no way he would ever revolt against the school or shoot it up. This guy is the best teacher I ever had or most people would ever have. You’re blog is ignorant and honestly disgusting and shameful. Mr. McCollough is an unbelievable teacher and his point was that you are not special because everyone else is also special and that one needs to fall and stumble to truly realize their potential and who they are in this world. You clearly missed this, so as someone who had this teacher, I am unbelievably offended that you made these remarks towards this teacher. So please STFU. You barstool writers are ignorant and honestly, retarded. Educate yourself before you make remarks about things like this. Those who never had this teacher might (might, I say, because most people will find it ignorant and repulsive) find this funny but as someone who did, your comments are embarrassing and shameful.
KFC you are waaaaay off on this one. Here is a video of the speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_lfxYhtf8o4
He ends his speech wonderfully:
“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly. Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special.”
A truly wonderful speech, not at all “destructive”.
I like kfc’s version better.