Posted on 06/05/2012 5:38:45 AM PDT by TSgt
CINCINNATI - Winning football teams are use to a lot of cheering.
But for the second leading tackler of the Mt. Healthy Fighting Owls, cheering has earned Anthony Cornist a penalty he doesn't think he deserves.
"It's crazy how somebody can do that to you," he said from his family's living room Monday.
When Anthony walked across the stage at his high school graduation, his family made some noise.
"It was my dream to graduate," he said.
"I'm very proud of my son," Traci Cornist said.
Apparently, so were a lot of others.
"Teachers, other students and other family members who weren't with us were also cheering for him also. He's well known," Traci said.
The excitement proved too much for the administration.
Instead of a diploma, Anthony got a letter from the principal, Marlon Styles, Jr.
"I will be holding your diploma in the main office," the letter said, "due to the excessive cheering your guests displayed during the rollcall."
"I did nothing wrong except walk across the stage," Anthony said.
The school demands 20 hours of community service before he can graduate.
Those hours can be split between Anthony and his family, or the senior can perform them all himself.
"I don't understand how he's being punished for something he has no control over," Traci said. "I just thought that was ludicrous...I have no clue where the logic comes in."
Calls to the principal, the district superintendent as well as a visit to Mt. Healthy High School have all gone unanswered.
Anthony's mother says so will the penalty.
"He's definitely not doing the community service," she said. "I'm definitely not doing the community service."
That strategy could spell trouble for Anthony's game plan.
"I have a college right now that definitely needs my diploma," he said.
1. I have witnessed, on many occasions, certain elements of our society who lack self-control and decorum, disrupt these events.
2. Watch the video of the "Senior" attempt to read the disciplinary letter from the school. It's obvious that his popularity didn't come from his academic accomplishments.
Regardlesss of the student’s academic skills (or lack thereof), the imposition of a penalty upon a student who was entitled to receive his diploma smacks of a dictatorial, fascist attitude on the part of the principal and the school, and the family should sue the living shit out of them.
Agree, and without delay.
??????..let's hope they have a translator
Yeah the principal is just being a jerk.
FYI, the principal is one of Holder’s people.
We had a girl I failed THREE TIMES until she was put on an internet based class graduate this year. Her family brought AIR HORNS and were escorted out.
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.
When can we finally rid ourselves of the scourge of public education.
The kid spends 13 years at school and doesn’t learn much. They withhold his diploma. He now will sue them, and folks like me have to pick up the tab for the whole thing. My parents didn’t go to public school, neither did I nor did my children. Now, I’m the one ultimately footing the bill for this non-sense.
Liberal mind set of the administrators...can’t take the slightest step out their prosribed PC “education.” Denying him a diploma over the cheering is ludicrous. I cheered for each of my five kids when they took that walk in High School. and have done so for their college walks as they come too.
However, he is also the result of that same liberal indoctrinated education system which dumbs down all kids to fit the lowest common denominator and is much more about Union power and tenure and money for large administrative staffs than it is about education.
If he can’t read, he should not receive a diploma. But that same group of people who would deny him a diploma for beeing too loudly cheered...denied him the chance to actually earn the diploma by passing him on to the next grade and the next and the next...even though he couldn’t read.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Pity the kid whose family obeys the rule.
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.
” I have witnessed,on many occasions,certain elements of our society who lack self-control and decorum,disrupt these events.”
This behavior is encouraged in a sporting events and their church.
The only two places they are used to.
We are melanin stupid.
This is so outrageous!! I wish I were an attorney so I could offer my services to this kid (pro bono of course)
“It is obvious that his popularity didn’t come from his academic accomplishments”.
So what? He’s not the brightest crayon in the box but he obviously passed all the academic requirements to graduate high school. The principal is way out of line... demanding 20 hours of “community service” and the letter suggested he and/or his family can perform that “punishment”. A principal can’t demand that a parent perform community service (that is a job for a Judge). There are other ways to control a graduation. Have the main speaker request all applause be held until the last student receives his or her diploma. That way... if someone starts to cheer.. everyone else will look at them. I’ve seen that firsthand and it actually works. No one wants to be the “odd” person out.
Sue, sue, sue..... FR has been invaded by sue-freaks. There’s already enough of holders people looking for a lifetime free ride as it is.
Was this 3rd Grade Graduation? Obviously, there is more to this story than the lame-stream media is telling, not to mention the lack of edjamacation this dude shows. Yeah, Publix Skools! Way to go Teacher’s Union!
Speaking of academic accomplishments -
“CINCINNATI - Winning football teams are use to a lot of cheering.”
Should be “used”. How are these people allowed to write articles?
Hell I’ve got issues with the community service requirement alone.
...”Watch the video of the “Senior” attempt to read the disciplinary letter from the school. It’s obvious that his popularity didn’t come from his academic accomplishments”...
He seems like a nice kid, but I wonder whether others are also disturbed that he is headed to college and can hardly read. Will he learn to read better in college or will he be shunted through to then get some kind of job in authority over of a lot of people because of football skills? Does education seriously mean anything, anymore? A big part of education is discipline in all ways..And, that means decorum at public events.
If the students and parents were warned about this, which they probably were, then it’s too bad. Other people have a right to enjoy their graduation ceremony without it turning into a hooting and hollering contest.
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