Latino Valedictorian Delivers Speech In Spanish

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco

You have to love this kid’s gumption!

His name is Saul Tello, Jr., a high school senior from Orestimba High School, in Newman, California,  who burned the study candle to a stump and became his class’ valedictorian. Congratulations to him for that!

According to a report in Fox News Latino, he was then given the task of delivering the valedictorian address at his school’s graduation – he was the first Latino in his school’s history to attain that honor. He asked if he could deliver part of the speech in Spanish, and was told that it had to be done in one language only.

You know where this is going…

“By being the first Hispanic valedictorian at our school to give my address in Spanish I am showing you that change is possible.”

Not everyone understood what he said, but a translation was provided to WestSideConnect.com.

Prop’s go out as well to the school’s principal, Jessie Ceja, who defended Tello’s right to deliver his speech in Spanish.