man it sux, at our school we don't have speeches for captaincy and stuff, its a vote from students, then teachers then interview with principal, then he gets the final word. Our captain this year got in cos he plays a bit of sport but more importantly his mum sucks up to the principal big time. The first time he got up to introduce himself as captain he had some shit speech and he like stuttered and was nervous and had never spoken in his life and i was like "wtf?? boo get off." So yeh, it just occured to me that we dont do speeches and speeches is a big part of captaincy.