The winner gets to make a speech. It is their work, not anything demanded
by the school or the government. What is your spin to this?

No spin at all. The school was wrong to punish a student for utilizing an
opportunity for free speech. The the student wanted to
say, "God. God. God......" 10,000 times- no problem.

The school would be just as wrong to demand that students pray, open the school
day with a standardized prayer that everyone was expected to say aloud, or
otherwise inject religion into publicly funded education.