2008
Valedictorian Speech

This year's valedictorian, Caitlin Solano, began her elementary school career at Princeton Latin Academy. Ms. Solano reminds us that second in importance to a family's unconditional love is a school with teachers "who treat you as an individual, as opposed to a number or test scores".


In youth, the amount of growth experienced in every aspect of your life is greater than it will ever be for the rest of your years. This time of learning and development is challenging and sometimes scary. The unconditional love of a family helps guide you through this exhilarating yet confusing process of growing into adulthood. The privilege most people do not get to have is a second family, one in the form of a school that provides an equal amount of love and support: a school that provides you with more than what you pay for, that does not just pay you back with a winning sports team or Olympic-sized swimming pool; a school where the teachers teach you more than what they are paid for, more than the subjects they are paid to know.

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