See, right there, that’s what I’m talking about. We know no such thing about this young woman, nor do we know anything about this counselor, but we’re awfully quick to give attagirls to someone going pretty hard at a public school counselor who may or may not have it coming.
Do you know that this counselor didn’t spend less time with the valedictorian than she would have liked because she was spending more time with other students with more pressing needs? I don’t. Do you know whether the valedictorian felt more entitled to the counselor’s time because she was the school’s top student and expected the lower achieving students to get in the back of the line? I don’t. And, to be fair, do I know whether the counselor is a jerk who is no good at her job? I don’t.
These assumptions are what I have a problem with. I’d have thought that in 2019 we’d have learned to reserve a bit of judgment on the underlying righteousness of viral videos, but there’s a lot of folks eager to pile on to a public school counselor they know nothing about
What wave of damage are you referring to, specifically? The speech called her out for not helping her, not for anything else.
