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Family Members Charged for Loud Cheering at Mississippi Graduation
NBC News ^ | June 4, 2015 | Elizabeth Chuck

Posted on 06/04/2015 11:14:43 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

Four people could face jail time for cheering too loudly at a Mississippi high school graduation.

Authorities have charged them with disturbing the peace, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine, for disrupting commencement exercises at Senatobia High School on May 21.

One of them, Henry Walker, cheered, "You did it, baby!" when his sister's name was called and was promptly whisked outside, his mother said.

"I don't think it was right for what they did to him," Linda Walker told NBC affiliate WMC in Memphis.

The superintendent, Jay Foster, who pressed the charges, told WMC that outbursts during past graduations led him to get tough. When the cheering is too loud, he said, some graduates can't hear their names called.

"I hope we send them a message that everybody deserves the right to hear their child's name called, see their child walk across stage," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; ghettopeople
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1 posted on 06/04/2015 11:14:43 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

Same story, different source. Connecting the two threads

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3296549/posts


2 posted on 06/04/2015 11:16:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: BradtotheBone

Part of lowering expectations. My parents clapped but expected me to go on and achieve more, it was just a step on the ladder. If you have trouble graduating high school then you have other more pressing problems.

Then again based on some graduates I have seen they deserved praise for their “peak” moment.


3 posted on 06/04/2015 11:18:58 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

Indeed. . .and in this case, probably a good chance this graduate was the first in their family to receive their HS diploma from a real high school and not while in prison.


4 posted on 06/04/2015 11:23:36 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: BradtotheBone
I agree that loud and obnoxious parents should be asked to leave graduations, but pressing criminal charges and further congesting the legal system for this kind of stupid is just stupid.

I mean, really, shouting out to your kid is now a criminal act?

5 posted on 06/04/2015 11:23:53 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: BradtotheBone

Certain people just can’t follow simple rules and couldn’t care less for common courtesy.


6 posted on 06/04/2015 11:24:57 AM PDT by Bullish (Not even a smidgeon of integrity or sanity in this whitehouse.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

I’ll never forget what my dad said to me when I graduated high school: “From privileged senior to unemployed bum, in just one afternoon.”

Dad always put things in proper perspective.


7 posted on 06/04/2015 11:25:17 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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(Mother) "When a child does all they can to graduate, it's an honor and a privilege for them to walk that stage. It's a privilege for me to clap and applaud," she told WMC. ...just as long as we get to shout and disrupt...don't matter to me wither others get to hear their child's name
8 posted on 06/04/2015 11:25:44 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: BradtotheBone
One of them, Henry Walker, cheered, "You did it, baby!" when his sister's name was called and was promptly whisked outside, his mother said.

I'm guessing this is the Uncle who supplied the beer for the tailgate out in the parking lot.

9 posted on 06/04/2015 11:26:10 AM PDT by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: BradtotheBone

The SDuperintendent of the prison camp should be the one facing charges.


10 posted on 06/04/2015 11:28:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Gamecock
I’ll never forget what my dad said to me when I graduated high school: “From privileged senior to unemployed bum, in just one afternoon.”

That's a keeper!

11 posted on 06/04/2015 11:28:56 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Resolute Conservative

Unlike democrats and elections, they pretty much graduate most to all WARM bodies who stay in school for 12 years. Not a real education anymore.....more of a progressive doctrination with a little 2+2 thrown in to make it look real.
Applauding it as a real accomplishment is OK for those who aim low. And those who aim low must applaud the loudest as corralling shopping carts and flipping Big Macs will garner scant kudos.


12 posted on 06/04/2015 11:29:50 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: BradtotheBone

“outbursts during past graduations led him to get tough. When the cheering is too loud, he said, some graduates can’t hear their names called.”

Another “don’t get me started”.....

The lack of courtesy is outrageous. That includes those that won’t stand up to it.

I experienced this first-hand at my nieces’ graduation 2 years ago. Very well-known private Catholic school, being held at a large cathedral. The hosts even specifically asked people refrain from excessive displays before the ceremony. Did they? No. About halfway through, certain kinds of people start hooting and screaming for THEIR girl. Then, it kept going, for every other girl, usually of certain persuasions.

Not only does this make it hard for others to hear their own, it makes those who DON’T get huge applause feel left out, perhaps lesser.

I despise these louts.

But, noone did anything.

They should be given a warning, then kicked out.

But, I’m not sure “charges” should accrue, unless they became “unruly” because they were “dissed” by being asked to shut up.


13 posted on 06/04/2015 11:30:07 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: BradtotheBone

anyhow hip hip houra for your graduation


14 posted on 06/04/2015 11:35:51 AM PDT by bob_denard
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To: Timber Rattler

It’s a small town.


15 posted on 06/04/2015 11:38:26 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: BradtotheBone

No dignity, no decorum, no respect anywhere nowadays. People have become little more than hootin’ and hollerin’ apes. And it renders everything valueless. People act like animals, and they should be treated like animals.

I’d go for a dart-rifle remedy. Like the guy in “Daktari” who would shoot wild African game to put them to sleep. A big syringe fired into the animals’ rumps, and they’d flop violently up into the air, writhe around, and slowly start falling asleep, with one leg protruding upward, twitching, as it gradually descends. Then, proceed on with the graduation. A well-behaved graduation.


16 posted on 06/04/2015 11:42:14 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Timber Rattler
I agree that loud and obnoxious parents should be asked to leave graduations, but pressing criminal charges and further congesting the legal system for this kind of stupid is just stupid.

My oldest son graduated high school last Saturday.

Before the commencement ceremony, the principal of the high school asked those gathered to please hold their applause, "shout outs" and all other nonsense to the end of the ceremony so EVERY PARENT could hear their son/daughter's name read out loud as they crossed the stage to get their diploma.

Before I go on, I'll tell you that I live in a very predominantly white area (90% or more) with some blacks, Hispanics and (shudder....) muslim families sprinkled in here and there.

It never failed: whenever a black, hispanic or muslim kid crossed the stage, as soon as their name was read their families would go ape-shit for 15-30 seconds and cause the entire proceeding to stop until they shut the hell up, so that the name of the unfortunate kid who had to sit near these animals could be heard by their parents.

WTF is it with some people who cannot control themselves and feel the need to act like a fool like that? Really disgusting and saddening what this country is becoming.

17 posted on 06/04/2015 11:47:41 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Shouting is now considered a crime. Looting and burning is not considered a crime, if done by a protected victim group.


18 posted on 06/04/2015 12:03:36 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

To be fair, the achievement of graduating will be the greatest accomplishment many of those of that “certain persuasion” will attain. That hootin’ and hollerin’ is their last shot at any kind of glory. (I’ve been to enough graduations in the past few years to share your observation).


19 posted on 06/04/2015 12:12:21 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: usconservative; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; Bob Ireland; seekthetruth; seenenuf; ...
Your post is spot on, Unconservative !.

As is usual these days on FR, hot-headed freepers instantaneously are climbing all over the school and law authorities without knowing what really happened....as opposed to those of us who saw on TV the incident caught on tape.

May I refer these "jump-to-conclusions", "victims by proxy", "I-have-the-ABSOLUTE-RIGHT-to-be-disruptive-and-uncivil" freeper posters to today's "Rush Limbaugh Show" thread and read my post #49....and thence to post # 64 for a surprise I received.

Leni

20 posted on 06/04/2015 12:21:14 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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