Peter Butera
Peter Butera
Peter Butera is an American 18 year-old teenager residing in town Pennsylvania town of West Pittston. [5]
Personal Life & Activities
Prom photo of Peter with his date.
Born and raised in West Pittston for much of his life, he has grown up to be an intelligent individual in his family.
High School
Peter at his graduation ceremony where his speech was cut short after criticizing his High School's administrators.
Peter is a 2017 graduate of Wyoming Area. He is a Valedictorian in his class. During his speech, the principal, Dr. Jon Pollard, approached Peter and cut his speech short. [9]He asked Peter to sit back down. During the speech, Peter had expressed his concern for how authoritarian the administrators at the school behave toward the students. [0]
When asked about the interruption, Peter said the following:
“I don’t think it could have gone any better... I got my point across and them cutting the microphone proved my point to be true.”
According to the Wyoming Area Superintendent Janet Serino, she said graduation speeches are vetted ahead of time and Butera veered off the script of the one he submitted.
This is what Peter would have said to finish off his speech if he wasn't cut off:
“Hopefully for the sake of future students, more people of authority within this school will prioritize the empowering of students as well as preparing them to further their educations.
Because, at the end of the day, it is not what we have done as Wyoming Area students or athletes that will define our lives, but what we will go on to do as Wyoming Area alumni.
And I hope that every one of my fellow classmates here today, as well as myself, will go on to do great things in this world and find true happiness and success.
Thank you all for coming out to this great celebration today.”
Peter doesn't believe that his speech was at all disrespectful but a precise and friendly critique of the administration he saw each day he attended the school for four years.
Education
He has committed to attend Villanova University where he intends to study Business administration. [0]