Don’t spike the ball, don’t dance when you score, don’t put your fist in the air, don’t demonstrate anything at all when you score- you may make the opponent feel bad.
I think the diploma issue comes from the Progressive’s obsession with “fairness” and “equal outcome”.
What if some other family did not cheer as loud, some other student didn’t get to feel as much love- isn’t that unfair?
So we’ll teach them a lesson in fairness. That joy he felt is to be crushed under disapproval and community service. Not only does it punish the gross unfairness of cheering for one student louder than others, the slighted parties can all feel vindicated without ever having to come out and say how hurt they were.
Why does ANYONE actually cheer at a high school graduation - unless that represents all that you ever hope the young man or young woman will ever accomplish? Or perhaps you are shocked beyond belief that the person actually graduated.
I’m always disappointed in the total lack of class that this type of behavior displays.
Recently I attended a graduation at a high school where the audience was asked, out of respect for the graduates,so they could hear their names called, to withhold their applause until the last graduate received a diploma. I might add this was a small school, ranked quite high nation-wide academically. It went quite well. Each graduate heard his or her name called...until it got very near the end when a student’s family did that hooting and hollaring and all the juvenile noise making you generally hear from that particular kind of group. It was so embarassing to the student whose family-and it was just the family- did that and it ruined the otherwise dignified ceremony.I don’t think it is about fairness. I think it is about decorum and respect. However, with just the one out-burst it was better than any other graduation I have attended.