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.
“Loose” and “lose” drive me nuts. I actually found that misuse on a major retailer’s website in no fewer than 20 product descriptions, and I sent them an email explaining the misuse. The response email I received was so laden with misspellings and grammatical errors that I came to the conclusion it was the same person who wrote the product descriptions.
Don’t get me started on apostrophes.
The problem, as I see it, is that society as a whole accepts these misspellings and misuses. No one wants to correct them for fear of being seen as a “grammar Nazi” or otherwise lambasted as being too proper. Decades ago, society would denigrate those people as imbeciles, teachers would discipline children for improper diction, and the like. Those days are gone in lieu of what “feels” right to the student.
“Oh, little Johnny, it’s okay that you didn’t spell laugh correctly. ‘Laff’ is a perfectly acceptable substitute.”
Notice the last few National Spelling Bee winners were home-schooled children of Indian descent?
I can almost guarantee they were warned about it. I've been to more than a few High School graduations in Cincinnati and that warning was given at every one of them. Hold all applause until the end, because these events are long enough with 500+ graduates.
It's like someone already posted, there are always people at these events who lack restraint and decorum, and when they act like children even after the warnings, other people do not get to hear their loved ones name being called.
That reasoning is given along with the warning, but some people just do not care.
My 6-year-old reads better than this guy. Seriously. His parents, his teachers, and he himself have set this guy up to fail.
I was at a graduation on Saturday. Before the graduationg class entered the facility, a school administrator broadcasted that it was ok for a cheer but do not prolong it as to prevent the next graduate’s name from being heard. 504 graduated to brief cheers and single hand claps by fellow graduates and teachers. Loud and boistrous would not have been appropriate at this ceremony. Those disrupting would have been asked to leave. Punishing the student was not the best remedy.
Then you have a much better behaved crowd than many I have seen. I have witnessed "cheering" (a rather polite term for a bunch of idiots hooting and blowing air horns) drown out the next two or three names.
I did notice there were no white kids of American descent in the finals. Doesn’t bode well for our future. Schools are too busy teaching how wonderful homosexuality is and making such kids have high self-esteem for absolutely no accomplishments and don’t have time to teach spelling and grammar.
“I have a college right now that definitely needs my diploma,” he said.
This is not what he said. What he actually said was:
“I have a college right now dat dat definitely need mah diploma”
I know I’m nitpicking, but either quote the person correctly, or auto-correct EVERYONE.
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.
COOL!
so if you hate someone... you just cheer for them at their graduation! and they don’t get their diploma!!!
sweet!
“...until she was put on an internet based class graduate this year...”
What is an internet based class?
Astounding. A huge chunk of the population simply has no idea how to behave appropriately in any given situation. It's as though they were raised by animals.
You ask “What should we do- sit solemnly and gravely nod in a restrained way when the kid gets his diploma?”
Yes.
Yep. The banner running at the bottom of the Fox News screen often has spelling mistakes. Only in the past few years has this kind of thing become common.
How about plain old applause without the air horns, banners, sudden screaming and loud, prolonged cheering?
Uncontrollable, rude crap like this by a few infantile individuals competing for and boorishly demanding attention has turned any event with the word “public” attached to it into a bloody nightmare.
I know this isn’t a grammar/spelling peeve thread, but I have to say this because I saw it a couple of times yesterday. The next time I see, instead of “voila”, “viola” or worse yet, “WA-LA”, I will scream.
And we should avoid colorful, loud, or boastful clothing as well. Grey, black, and white are appropriate.
The band should play only the National Anthem, and no chorus or other music.
People may applaud quietly but only for so long as the Administration does, and no longer.
Smiling or other outrageous displays will be dealt with.
Thanks for the laugh! ;0)
NOw you're just being obtuse.
Hopefully someone will explains things to you, delicately.
“How about plain old applause”
I guess. My experiences seem to be different from most others here.
I have seen televised soccer matches (not in the USA) where the people in the bleachers light FLARES and wave them around, plus those plastic horns and air horns. Now that’s over the top.
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